Title: Life in the Womb: The Origin of Health and Disease
Product review: This is one of the most poorly written books I have ever slogged through. Which is a shame, because the ideas are important and intriguing: epidemiology and animal experiments show that maternal undernourishment changes the pancreas and liver to prepare for a life of famine. Subsequent normal and especially abundant diets then result in late onset diabetes and heart disease. The fetus is also extremely susceptible to damage from alcohol and tobacco. Thus, the way to reduce diseases that are thought to be genetic is by proper maternal nourishment and hygiene.Now that you know what the book has to say, save your money and spend it on other equally interesting but better written books about late-onset disease: Why Animals Don't Get Heart Disease by Matthias Rath and any books by Dean Ornish or Robert Pritikin. Nathanielsz ignores pre-natal emotional stress which is touched on in Arthur Janov's works.
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