A study that got published in the journal Cell Death and Differentiation revealed that maternal diet plays a key role in developing type 2 diabetes in their unborn babies. Poor maternal diet increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in unborn babies.

Lead researcher Dr. Susan Ozanne, from the Cambridge University, said that an unborn baby has a capacity beyond which he could not store fat. So when an expecting mother indulges in a high calorie diet then an unborn child's inner mechanism is forced to store extra fat in other parts of the body such as in liver and muscles. This process leads to increase in risk that causes diabetes.

Nowadays, this phenomenon has become common for unborn babies to cope up with his mother's rich modern western diet intake. In order to reach at above conclusion, researchers followed mechanism of pregnant mice. They found a genetic molecule called miR-483-3p which leads to diabetes in unborn babies.

Ozanne said they found that when pregnant mice were fed with low protein diet then they gave birth to offspring which had high level of miR-483-3p. This cell suppressed protein level which is necessary to avoid diabetes and increased the risk of having the disease.

"It has been known for a while that your mother's diet during pregnancy plays an important role in your adult health but the mechanisms in the body that underlie this aren't well understood", said Ozanne.

It is very important that women should take nutritious diet when they are expecting as it has direct impact on her child. Poor diet affects badly to womb and makes it vulnerable to be gifted with unwanted diseases.

Not only diabetes, but poor maternal diet can even affect child's liver and other body parts. Exercise and healthy diet are two best solutions to overcome this problem, said Ozanne.