Girl Power: How your daughter's nutrition affects future generations

So, watched this video, about a medical breakthrough about how a mother eats before and throughout the pregnancy affects the kid's life, whether he/she has a higher chance of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, etc. Dr. Thornburg, OHSU's Cardiovascular director, says that from the time that the egg is fertilized in the mother's ovaries and travels back the the Uterus through the Fallopian tubes, electrical impulses are sent to the egg to tell it how fast to grow and what to grow first. From this point on, what the mother eats affects the fetus and how it grows. The pace the fetus grows at is very vital, too fast and the baby will be premature and will lack nutrition, too slow and the baby maybe over weight. The weight the baby is born at as well as the nutrition the mother gave it during the pregnancy can affect the chances that the baby may attract illnesses as it grows. The average weight of an american baby is around 7.1 pounds, but the ideal weight for a baby is 9 pounds, through his research, Dr. Thornburg says that with a average of 1 pound increase in American babies, the likeliness that the baby gets diabetes drops 60% and gets cardiovascular disease drops 40%. Many other habits as the baby grows up also affects the health it has, such as nutrition and exercise. With the current weight average, kids may exhibit hypertension as early as the age of 10 years old.

I was fascinated by this video because I always liked the health field and am planning to continue on as being a doctor, and seeing these breakthroughs in research that help us gain knowledge and understanding on how to better take care of ourselves makes me happy and more motivated to become a doctor.

There has been numerous studies that show that when the mother does not have enough nutrition for the fetus, the fetus will sacrifice its organs to save the brain. Physical features that tell us that it occurred is when the baby is born with a big head and smaller than average body. My question is, do all diseases show symptoms on our skin or body? Because our skin is the biggest organ on our body, like some symptoms that we know of that shows up is jaundice, which shows that there is a liver problem, blue colored nails which tell us many things, such as lack of oxygen, bad circulation to the extremities.