Life in the womb : the origin of health and disease

A story that will change your ideas about health and disease. Full of revolutionary and iconoclastic ideas impacting all our lives and the lives of generations of children as yet unborn. * How we are ushered into life will affect how we leave it. * Diseases such as diabetes can be passed transgenerationally from mother to daughter and from daughter to granddaughter by nongenetic mechanisms. * The idea that our health is programmed in the womb is supported by life-time health records of babies born at the beginning of this century which show that birthweight is closely linked to health in later life. The Origin Of Health And Disease -- The Dutch Hunger Winter -- Detective Stories -- Transgenerational Origins Of Health And Disease: Disease Fights Forward -- Growth In The Womb: Size Is Not Everything -- Prenatal Setting Of Stress Levels -- Heart Disease, Obesity And Diabetes -- Environmental Influences In The Womb -- You Are Your Brain -- Born Too Soon, Born Too Late -- Back To The Future -- Further Reading And Notes. Peter W. Nathanielsz. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 284-353) And Index.