Women who consume fat and sugar-rich diets and are obese even before their pregnancy can predispose up to three generations to the risk of metabolic problems even if their children consume healthy diets warns a new study conducted on mice. The findings showed that a mother's obesity could put three generations at risk of Type 2 diabetes heart disease as well as genetic abnormalities. The mother's obesity and its associated metabolic problems can be inherited through mitochondrial DNA -- powerhouses of cells -- present in the unfertilized oocyte or egg. Our data was the first to show that pregnant mouse
