Others still are child brides, forced out of school and into loveless marriages, often undergoing early pregnancies that put their lives at risk.

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Women whose mothers were exposed to the famine early in their pregnancies were especially prone to later obesity.

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In a paper published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, he reported that this disorder, too, occurred more than twice as often in those whose mothers were starved in the early part of their pregnancies as in those whose mothers were (for wartime conditions) reasonably well-fed.

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