Science is looking for new means to fight the epidemic childhood obesity . It has long been established that mothers suffering from obesity, the light often appear with children overweight . In general, the total mothers in the 50-70% more children grow up with a lot of extra padding than those women who are watching their dimensions.
Doctors from the Women's Hospital in Liverpool decided to conduct the study of a new technique to combat childhood obesity To be held before the birth of the child. About 100 expectant mothers suffering from obesity , Will receive the medicine metformin By which the flow of nutrients to children in utero is reduced. The medicine does not help women themselves to lose weight, but the idea is to help kids not to get it, which have yet to be born.
Clinical trials of a new technique will last three years. "We must try to help pregnant women who are suffering from obesity, - said study author obstetrician Dr Andrew Weeks. - The problem is that these women are born larger children who later were significantly more likely to suffer from obesity. A lot of them then faced with chronic diseases associated with obesity. This is due to have their birth. "
Among other things, metformin lowers blood sugar in the mother's blood, which is transmitted to the unborn child. Already this medicine treated as pregnant diabetics and a diabetic patients.
However, the leader of Britain's largest public organization for people with overweight All About Weight Alison Wetton says this technique questionable from an ethical point of view. "I would be offended by such a proposal, and I believe that other women too. Ladies with overweight before conceiving a child have to go on a diet and drop those extra kilos, change the style of life, which in the future depends on the child's weight. Tablets will not help. "
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