The “Toxic” Effects of a Perinatal Obesogenic Environment: Maternal Obesity and Impacts on Future Generations

In recent decades, epidemic levels of metabolic disease states have become global issues. Among the most well-known of these are obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, whose social and economic impacts have prompted a global fervor of investigation into their causes. Though initially considered to be determined largely by genetic and lifestyle factors, such as diet and exercise, this paradigm would ultimately be insufficient to explain …