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Smoking during pregnancy: What is its role in childhood obesity?
Posted on Oct 30th 2007 9:30AM by Bethany SandersThere have been several studies done about the negative impacts of smoking during pregnancy, but research coming out of Japan has a new twist on this particular area of study: Children of women who smoked while they were pregnant are three times more likely to become obese.
The study is the first of its kind to actually follow children until they were 10 years old. However, researchers could do no more than correlate smoking during pregnancy and obesity, so no one is really sure if smoking actually causes obesity, or if there are other lifestyle factors that contribute to the finding.
Several more critical health issues have already been linked with smoking during pregnancy. This one is interesting though. Could something be happening in the womb to predispose kids to gaining excessive weight? What do you think?
The study is the first of its kind to actually follow children until they were 10 years old. However, researchers could do no more than correlate smoking during pregnancy and obesity, so no one is really sure if smoking actually causes obesity, or if there are other lifestyle factors that contribute to the finding.
Several more critical health issues have already been linked with smoking during pregnancy. This one is interesting though. Could something be happening in the womb to predispose kids to gaining excessive weight? What do you think?
