How Mom’s Obesity Might Effect Child’s Brain Function (Premium)
Sheila DeMare: Another newly found piece of the puzzle helps explain the worldwide rise in ADHD, autism, and related conditions. The puzzle doesn’t fit every situation, and no maternal guilt should be assigned or self-inflicted! Mothers of neurodiverse kids have enough to deal with as it is, and new study results often surface. Further, many studies base the term “obesity” on BMI (body mass index), the use of which is controversial. That said, a team at the University of South Australia conducted an analysis of more than 3.6 million mother-child pairs across 42 studies and came up with these surprising results: