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Published online 9 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060807-11
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Fat mums have fatter babies
America's obesity is being passed to next generation.
It might not seem inevitable that overweight mothers will have fatter babies. But this is exactly what's happening in the United States, say researchers who have documented how the 'obesity epidemic' is being passed on to the next generation.
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