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Well, that’s what medical researchers are saying:

I guess everything affects a child. At the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco this week, investigators from the University of Auckland reported their findings that what a woman eats during pregnancy and nursing may affect the age at which her daughter starts puberty.

However, the study was done on rats, and basically found that the “onset of puberty was much earlier in all the rats whose mothers ate a high-fat diet, regardless of whether the baby rats ate high-fat or regular diets. Baby rats that ate a high-fat diet also had early puberty even if their mothers ate a healthful diet.”

Experts say, “an early first menstrual period, before the age of 12, is a risk factor for breast cancer, teenage depression, obesity and insulin resistance.

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