These conditions are all miserably predictable. Their DNA was already set in place. But the unborn would face a different set of problems. For children in utero, maternal malnutrition has an effect on the expression of their genes, which would be altered and disrupted. The result for the children of the Hongerwinter was a set of health problems that would persist throughout their lives. Compared to the general population, and compared to siblings who were conceived either before or after the famine, they were smaller and underweight. They were more likely to be obese, diabetic, and
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Prenatal malnutrition - Dutch famine
