Life in the womb
- Authors
- Nathanielsz, P.W.
- Publisher
- Promethean Press
- Tags
- disease susceptibility , prenatal influences -- popular works , maternal exposure , maternal-fetal exchange , diseases -- causes and theories of causation -- popular works , fetus -- physiology -- popular works , environmentally induced diseases -- popular works , nutritionally induced diseases -- popular works , diseases -- susceptibility -- popular works , fetal development -- physiology
- ISBN
- 9780916859565
- Date
- 1999-02-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.83 MB
- Lang
- en
A story that will change your ideas about health and disease. Full of revolutionary and iconoclastic ideas impacting all our lives and the lives of generations of children as yet unborn.
* How we are ushered into life will affect how we leave it.
* Diseases such as diabetes can be passed transgenerationally from mother to daughter and from daughter to granddaughter by nongenetic mechanisms.
* The idea that our health is programmed in the womb is supported by life-time health records of babies born at the beginning of this century which show that birthweight is closely linked to health in later life.