【Animal Modeling】-Mice experiments revealed that excessive diet during lactation will affect the health of children

  A recent study on mice shows that breastfeeding women who eat too much may increase their risk of obesity and puberty in the future, leading to diabetes and other infertility. Have. The results were recently presented at the 100th Annual Endocrine Society Annual Meeting in Chicago.

  "Our research shows that FormulaFeeding increases the risk of childhood obesity. However, if breastfeeding mothers eat unhealthy or inappropriate diets, it may have different health consequences for the offspring. Problems increase: including obesity, diabetes, precocious puberty and Diseases including decreased fertility.” But the lead author of the study, Wang Mengjie, a research assistant at the University of Toledo School of Medicine, said: “But this phenomenon is man-made. It needs to be verified repeatedly at the level.”

  According to the author, the phenomenon of early adolescence worldwide is gradually increasing. "Child obesity is a common health problem and one of the risk factors for precocious puberty." In previous animal studies, excessive weaning after weaning may lead to precocious puberty. I found. Understand how pre-weaning nutritional status affects metabolism and reproduction. In order to study how being overweight changes puberty, the authors fed mice a high-fat diet after giving birth and did not stop eating until after weaning.

  The author and others have found that overeating mothers can lead to obesity in children, which significantly accelerates the onset of puberty. Wang said: "These results show that lactation is very important for the health of young mice."