Overview: Casts new light on the mechanisms, potential targets of future interventions, and the challenges that must be overcome to break the intergenerational cycle of obesity.Offers a valuable source of infor.In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring. Obesity of the mother and father produces obesity in their offspring, so we are caught up in an intergenerational
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