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Lifecycle nutrition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The single strongest indicator of an infant’s future health | Infant’s birth weight. |
| Major risk for infants born to underweight mothers | Low birth weight |
| Consequences of low birth weight in infants. | Lower adult IQ, brain impairments, shorter stature, increased infant mortality |
| Risks for mothers who are overweight before pregnancy | Gestational diabetes, hypertension, infections after birth, C-section, increased maternal mortality. |
| Risks for infants born to mothers who were overweight before pregnancy | High birth weight, childhood obesity, neural tube defects |
| A father's pre-conception weight could increase the child’s risk for obesity and diabetes through | Epigenetic changes |
| Women of childbearing age get extra folate to reduce the risk of | Neural tube defects |