Profound social and economic changes have led to reduced physical activity and increased
calorie intaGe in recent generations, leading to a higher incidence of metabolic disease. We …

Regular physical activity/exercise maintains and improves physical and mental health. Here
we found that the effect of physical activity extends beyond the individual to the next …

While metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes are costly and deadly to the current
population, they are also extremely detrimental to the next generation. Much of the current …

Previous rodent studies have shown that maternal voluntary exercise during pregnancy
leads to metabolic changes in adult offspring. We set out to test whether maternal voluntary …

Current evidence suggests regular maternal physical activity while pregnant does not
negatively influence in utero or postnatal growth and development. Weight and …

Maternal exercise benefits offspring's metabolic health with long-term repercussions. Here,
we systematically reviewed the effects of maternal exercise on offspring obesity outcomes in …

Emerging research has shown that subtle factors during pregnancy and gestation can
influence long-term health in offspring. In an attempt to be proactive, we set out to explore …

Background Overweight and obesity in pregnancy is associated with adverse health
outcomes in both the mother and the offspring. It is not well established whether antenatal …

The notion that factors occurring in early life could impact the predisposition to chronic
diseases later in life originated in the 1980s after David Barker and Clive Osmond observed …

Background The genome, the environment, and their interactions simultaneously regulate
complex traits such as body composition and voluntary exercise levels. One such …