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Importance of a mother's diet

 The nine months you spent in your mother's womb could have damaged your health forever.

Intelligence, heart disease and even restricted growth may all be the result of what your pregnant mother ate, where she lived and how often she exercised. Even more worrying: you may not even know there is something wrong with you until it is years too late.

Startling new research has shown that a healthy life could be dependent on factors before you are born.

* Unborn babies are hugely dependent on the right diet. Not enough fish can lead to premature birth and brain damage. A woman who eats a lot of carbohydrates, such as potatoes, pasta and rice, in the first three months of pregnancy will give birth to a smaller baby, as will a woman who eats too little meat and dairy protein in the last three months.

The balance of nutrients could start a timebomb ticking within a baby's body leading to heart problems in later life.

* Women living in inner city areas are more at risk of giving birth to malformed babies because of the smog-filled air they breathe.

* Over-exercising could cause mean less oxygen reaching the foetus, damaging the brain.

* Children with low birth weights, who are short or thin at birth, are more likely to develop hypertension in later life.

According to Dr Michael Odent: `The brain is mostly made of fat, and more than 50 per cent of the fatty acids which make up the brain are from one Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid called DHA, which is abundant in fish.

`The rest comes from a different family of fatty acids found in animal and vegetable foods. DHA is essential for brain development, particularly in the last three months of pregnancy when the baby's brain goes through a growth spurt. If the mother eats plenty of DHA it also seems to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia.'

The balance between food is crucial, too, and may have a long-term effect of which few are aware.

A baby's growth inside the womb is determined by the amount of oxygen and nutrients it receives from its mother. As the baby grows, different organs mature at different times, so too many potatoes during some weeks and too little meat during others can slow the growth of these organs, causing them to be slightly malformed.

And often it is only by the age of 40 when those effects can really be noticed in, for instance, high blood pressure, heart attacks and liver disease.

Professor David Barker of the Medical Research Council, who conducted research at Southampton University, says: `Our observations are starting to explain what has long been familiar to the general public - that some people who do all the wrong things live to be 100, whereas others do all the right things yet still die young.'