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Too much sugar during pregnancy bad for baby’s brain: study

Pregnant women consuming high amounts of fructose may negatively affect their unborn baby's brain development, according to research from Japan.
Japanese researchers found that high fructose intake during pregnancy impaired fetal brain stem cell function and led to lasting effects.
Adult rats exposed prenatally to high fructose exhibited learning and memory impairments, according to the study.
Prenatal fructose exposure caused epigenetic changes in fetal neural stem cells, which may explain long-term disruptions related to brain development.

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Too much sugar during pregnancy bad for baby’s brain: study

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