Dieting During Pregnancy Stage Results in Children’s Intelligence Quotient

A new study carried out by US scientists showed that during the early stage of pregnancy, pregnant woman should absorb more crucial nutrition elements and heat, otherwise the growth of fetus’s brain will be affected badly. The researchers said this result was also suitable for women even though this was the conclusion of animal experiments. Pregnant women’s unhealthy diet habits were inevitable to cause life-long negative influence on the next generation.

Director Thomas MacDonald, head of this new research, said the new study further indicated that it was important to keep healthy and good diet habits during the pregnancy stage. Poor diet during pregnancy stage can affect the normal development of fetal organs, especially the brain, which would lead to negative effects forever such as low intelligence quotient and too much behavioral problems.

Several previous results showed that crazy dieting and food shortages during pregnant stage would be harmful to fetals’ normal development. However, the informants of the new study were pregnant women comes from British and American, all of whom were dieting moderately when pregnancy.

The researchers compared two groups of female baboons from San Antonio primate research center in Texas and found that lack of nutrition may affect fetals’ brain cell contacting with other, thus change performance of hundreds of gene, many of which affect cells’ growth and development.