How stressed you are during pregnancy can affect the health of your kid even when they grow up. Researchers have found that unborn children who are exposed to severe stress levels have an increased risk of becoming overweight or developing obesity as adults. If the expectant mother lost her husband during pregnancy her son had twice the risk of developing obesity in adulthood the findings showed. Overall our results indicate that stress can create a programming of the unborn child that makes it susceptible to putting on weight after birth said Lena Hohwu from Aarhus University in Denmark. (Read: Can
