Your baby’s birthday can show much more than your star sign.
An increasing body of work is to find out that the date of conception or birth of a person can affect the rest of their lives – from their weight to their chances of becoming a star athlete.
The last rehearsals? A recent study by the University of Tokyo, where research found that a person’s metabolism may change depending on when they were conceived.
The data showed that those conceived during the coldest months – October 17 to April 15, to be specific – have the most active brown fat tissue, a type of fat that burns calories to keep us warm and helps regulate blood sugar.
Babies born during these months were also found to have lower BMI, less fat accumulation around organs and increased energy costs, all are indicators of good overall metabolic health.
Main scientist Takeshi Yoneshiro explained that “The study suggests that the environment experienced by parents even before pregnancy may shape the child’s metabolic health later in life,” according to Times.
This is supported by previous research on mice, which found links between weather conditions and metabolism of offspring.
The study also matches decades of research showing that when a child is conceived and born can affect their health and lifestyle results.
A study conducted at the University of Cambridge found that babies born during the summer were healthier in other respects beyond metabolic health.
Those who were born during this time of year were a little more severe at birth, longer as adults, and passed puberty a little later, which is associated with improved health results for adults.
The results “support the growing notion that promoting good mothers health, and even earlier, pregnancy has very long impacts on the next generation,” Ken Once, the program manager at the Epidemiology Unit of Medical Research, the University of Cambridge.
And what months are associated with negative health results?
Babies conceived in January and February are more likely to develop a food allergy, especially for milk or eggs, a study from Oulu University found.
Those created in the first two months of the year have a 11% risk of becoming sensitive to a food allergy, while those whose life began in the womb during September or October have a 6% chance.
Scientists believe this may be due to high levels of allergens in the air during the 11th week of their gestation period – an essential time for antibody production for allergens.
Eastern dates have also been shown to be a predictor of the people’s athletic star and academic success.
A research project at the University of Strathclyde revealed that there were almost twice as many players born in January at the European football tournament last summer, as there were players born in December-both months had similar levels of births.
These latest findings further strengthen the evidence after the “relative age effect”, which claims that athletes and students born earlier in the year of selection for sports teams and academic grades have an initial advantage.
The phenomenon was first discovered in 1983 when researchers analyzed the birth dates of the amateur team of ice hockey.
Since then it has been linked to star athletes and great academics, as these children are nearly a year older and more practiced than their new teammates or classmates.
While all this may seem as if scientists are giving parents data that when they plan their baby’s birthday for optimal health results, experts say that research can provide knowledge of the relationship between a child’s environment and their health and how some diseases work.
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