In a novel study researchers claimed that individual chances of developing cancer are affected by the behavior of mother before they conceived. It is thought that risk of cancer is connected with individual’s gene and lifestyle as adult. Researchers believe that environmental factors of mother’s life also play key role in the development of cancer.
It is believed that environmental factors like if she smokes, drinks or being overweight encourage obesity and weight gain in children and raises the risk of getting cancer. Individual’s risk of developing cancer starts from before the time of conception. The risk causes are already operating in egg of mother before conception.
Cancer is genetic condition, according to researcher Professor Rocardo Uauy, a leading advisor to the United Nations and the World Health Organization, but individual’s chances of getting cancer are affected by environment in which one lives. Parents can reduce their infant’s cancer risk by eating less tinned food and by decreasing revelation to certain chemicals that cause cancer.
The women who are planning to conceive should stop smoking because it can raise the risk of infants born with low weight. Cancer study proposes that underweight babies put on weight speedily around their middles in early years that attach to risk of cancer afterward. Woman’s perfect body mass before conceiving should be eighteen to twenty-five.
Woman should avoid intake of alcohol and should have four-hundred mg of folate daily besides taking iron pill if necessary. Mothers-to-be only need to consume an extra 150 calories a day during the nine months of pregnancy and should not eat for two, explained Professor Uauy. Girls weighing more than 4kg (9lb) have an increased risk of breast cancer.
Girls born with longer bodies are also at increased risk of breast cancer. Breastfeeding is thought to have anti-cancer effects and infants should not be given solids until the age of six months. Children should not be given sweet drinks like fruit juice could encourage a craving for sugary drinks which escort to weight gain added Professor Uauy.