Shock of shocks! New study shows fat women more likely to have children with birth defects
If there is anyone out there not 100% convinced that obesity is the most preventable dangerous health condition, well, my guess is you are probably fat. Here is another study from the “no duh” file:
Researchers at Newcastle University found that babies born to obese mothers were more likely to suffer from a range of abnormalities.
They were more than twice as likely to be born with spina bifida, in which the spinal cord is incomplete, causing disability,
They were also 30 per cent more likely to have heart defects and 20 per cent more likely to be born with a cleft palate, the review of 39 separate scientific studies, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows.