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Scientists have made the world-first discovery that a pregnant woman's diet determines whether her baby grows into a fat adult or a skinny one... a mother's diet during pregnancy affects the baby's brain circuits, determining appetite and energy expenditure in their offspring.

Eating a Mediterranean diet - lots of fish, fresh fruits and vegetables and some dairy - during pregnancy could protect your unborn child from developing allergies or asthma

Women following the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy protect their children from allergy and asthma. This diet is associated with longevity and is healthy for everybody.

Researchers say that children of women who eat a Mediterranean style diet during pregnancy are far less likely to develop asthma or allergies later in life.

WOMEN can give their children a lifelong taste for “healthy but horrible” foods such as broccoli and brussel sprouts simply by eating them during pregnancy or while breast-feeding, researchers have found. The discovery could help avoid the battles over food and diet which dominate the dinner tables of many young families as parents try to...