Smoking moms tied to lasting kids’ sleep woes

Smoking moms tied to lasting kids’ sleep woes
Mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to have children with sleep problems from birth all the way through age 12, new research shows.

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Breast cancer risk tied to grandmother’s diet

Breast cancer risk tied to grandmother’s diet
Eating too much fat in pregnancy may be an indulgence that has a less-than-beneficial effect on generations to come, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their unique study in rats shows that pregnant females that ate a high fat diet not only increased breast cancer risk in their female daughters but also in that daughter’s offspring – the “granddaughters.” Details …

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Excess pregnancy pounds tied to extra fat in kids

Excess pregnancy pounds tied to extra fat in kids
Perhaps not surprisingly, children whose mothers gained too much weight during pregnancy tend to have more body fat than those whose moms stayed within the recommended weight-gain range, a new study finds.

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