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Obesity during pregnancy can make your baby fat

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obesityNew York : In a warning to soon-to-be mothers, researchers have recommended healthy and nutritious food during pregnancy as excess weight and high blood sugar can make babies prone to childhood obesity.

Being overweight with elevated blood sugar affects the baby’s metabolism in the womb.

“When women have elevated blood sugar and gain excess weight during pregnancy, it seems to change the baby’s metabolism to ‘imprint’ the baby for childhood obesity,” claimed lead study author Teresa Hillier from Kaiser Permanente Centre for Health Research in the US.

“We’re not sure yet of the exact mechanism of this change but it appears that the baby is adapting to an overfed environment whether from glucose or extra weight,” said Hillier in the paper published in the journal Maternal and Child Health Journal.

The team analysed more than 24,000 mothers who gave birth to normal weight babies of 2.5 to four kgs at birth and were accessed between 1995 and 2003.

The findings indicated that children of mothers who had elevated blood sugar during pregnancy were at higher risk for childhood obesity.

Those children were 30 percent more likely to be overweight or obese between ages two and 10 compared to children whose mothers had normal blood sugar.

Mothers who gained 18 Kg or more during pregnancy were 15 percent more likely to be overweight or obese.

“We need to intervene during the mom’s pregnancy to help her with nutritional and lifestyle changes that will result in healthy weight gain, healthy blood sugar and ultimately, healthy children,” Hillier stated.

 

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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