Maternal high fructose and low protein consumption during pregnancy and lactation share some but not all effects on early-life growth and metabolic programming of rat offspring

The objective of this study was to characterize and compare the fetal programming effects of maternal fructose with the established programming model of a low-protein diet on offspring.

Source: Nutrition Research - June 27, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Emily J. Arentson-Lantz, Mi Zou, Dorothy Teegarden, Kimberly K. Buhman, Shawn S. Donkin Tags: Original Research Source Type: research