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Early eating

What your mother ate the day after you were conceived may affect your health, Helen Gavaghan discovers.

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  1. Kwong, W.K. et al. Maternal under nutrition during the preimplantation period of rat development causes blastocyst abnormalities and programming of post natal hypertension. Development 127, 4195 - 4202 2000.

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Gavaghan, H. Early eating. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000928-2

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