A LINK between diet during pregnancy and diabetes in the offspring has turned up in a study of a strain of mice prone to the disease.
All the female offspring of pregnant mice fed water laced with bafilomycin, a toxin produced by bacteria that sometimes infect potatoes, developed type 1 diabetes by 30 weeks old. Only 70 per cent of the female offspring of mice in a control group did the same, Mark Myers of Monash University near Melbourne, Australia, told an American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans this week. Male offspring were also more susceptible to diabetes if…
