30 days/24: Eating lots of red meat, other inflammatory foods during pregnancy raises risk of childhood diabetes
A child injects insulin. - Copyright Canva Copyright Canva The study indicates that women’s diets may have long-lasting effects on their children’s health. Children may be more likely to develop type 1 diabetes if their mothers’ diets during pregnancy were rich in foods tied to low-grade inflammation, such as red meat and sugary drinks, a new study suggests. Type 1 diabetes, sometimes called childhood diabetes, is an autoimmune condition marked by chronic inflammation of pancreatic tissue. Diagnoses have been rising in Europe since the 1990s, prompting scientists to hunt for clues on what’s driving the increase. The new study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health , indicates that women’s diets during pregnancy may be part of the answer. It included nearly 68,000 women in Denmark who gave birth between 1996 and 2002, and followed their children over an average of 17 years. The mothers were assigned scores based on how inflamma...