Stress during pregnancy may cause female children to exhibit binge-eating-like behaviour in adulthood a study conducted on mice has showed. Although stressed mothers passed along binge eating-related epigenetic tags on their DNA the mouse pups' tendency to binge surfaced only when they too were subjected to stressful situationsthe researchers said. The price we pay later in life -- whether it's psychiatric disorders metabolic syndromes or heart-related illnesses -- is heavily impacted by the way your brain was programmed early in life said Alon Chen a neurobiologist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. We have established a model where we can
