Maternal Obesity increases risk of Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Disorders in Offspring

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There is a growing body of evidence from both human epidemiologic and animal studies that prenatal and lactational exposure to maternal obesity and high-fat diet are associated with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in offspring.

These disorders include cognitive impairment, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cerebral palsy, anxiety and depression, schizophrenia, and eating disorders.

This review synthesizes human and animal data linking maternal obesity and high-fat diet consumption to abnormal fetal brain development and neurodevelopmental and psychiatric morbidity in offspring

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Obesity needs to be a considered factor in bipolar disorder treatment/diagnosis. Can’t find the article but here’s another one about food addiction.

http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/specialty-focus/addiction-medicine/single-article-page/the-politics-of-food-addiction-who-wins-who-loses/f54711489d08b18da8a5bf89c6c00e4d.html

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Definitely not a factor in my family history - depression, bipolar and psychosis all over and the mothers all verging on being underweight.

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http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/specialty-focus/depression/single-article-page/new-guidelines-to-focus-on-mixed-features-in-depression-bipolar/729a4b2b144623042971ca3f4ee27577.html