by Eilish O'Regan ©Independent.ie
MOthers who snack on foods like chocolate and white bread during later pregnancy may give birth to heavier babies.
The babies also have a greater risk of childhood obesity, according to a new study by Irish researchers.
The research published in the 'British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology' was carried out by scientists from the Conway Institute at UCD and the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) in Dublin, and focuses on high GI (glycaemic index) foods like chocolate.
It looked at sheep models of pregnancy and discovered that high GI snack diets among ewes during the third trimester of pregnancy resulted in a heavier birth weight and postnatal growth rate of newborn lambs.
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