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Published online 22 September 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000928-2
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Early eating
What your mother ate the day after you were conceived may affect your health, Helen Gavaghan discovers.
Diet during the days immediately following conception can be crucial for health in later life, new research suggests. A low protein diet in the few days before the embryo implants in the uterus wall can cause high blood pressure in rats.
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