Researchers from the University of Queensland have raised concerns over the influence a spouse’s diet has on a woman’s food choices during pregnancy, as the expecting mother’s diet and health will also impact the health of their future children. “Better education and support for partners could help improve the eating habits of expectant mums, which in turn will make the foetus healthier and reduce the future risk of disease,” the principal investigator of the research team, Prof. Vicki Clifton, said. The team studied the diet and health of 194 pregnant women and their spouses who were booked to give birth at the Mater Mothers’ Hospital from 2018 to 2020. A survey was conducted at 22 weeks of gestation on their health conditions, with the dietary intake of both participants in the previous three to six months self-reported at 24 weeks’ gestation. “We know behaviours during the first 1,000 days of …