{"id":187849,"date":"2024-04-22T02:22:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/pregnant-womens-diet-affects-facial-features-of-their-children-scientists-find"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T07:22:58","slug":"pregnant-womens-diet-affects-facial-features-of-their-children-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/pregnant-womens-diet-affects-facial-features-of-their-children-scientists-find","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Women\u2019s Diet Affects Facial Features of Their Children, Scientists Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pregnant-womens-diet-affects-facial-features-of-their-children-scientists-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a big nose you despise? Or pointy features you find annoying?<\/p>\n<p>Well, blame your mother and her late night pregnancy cravings for chocolate ice cream dusted with Flaming Hot Cheetos.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-46030-3#Sec8\" class=\"\">new study<\/a> in <em>Nature Communications<\/em> suggests that your mother\u2019s diet during pregnancy is a significant factor in how your facial features are shaped due to a complex dance between gene expression and how much protein she ate while you were a fetus swimming inside her tummy \u2014 putting a new spin on the phrase \u201cyou are what you eat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a big nose you despise? Or pointy features you find annoying? Well, blame your mother and her late night pregnancy cravings for chocolate ice cream dusted with Flaming Hot Cheetos. A new study in Nature Communications suggests that your mother\u2019s diet during pregnancy is a significant factor in how your facial features [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}