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Croissants = lotsa butter = high in fat — and according to a study in the latest issue of journal Hepatology, a diet high in fat while you’re pregnant will cause a liver disease in your child later in his/her life =( And so I must give up my favorite buttery pastries, I don’t want our child to be sick because of my gluttony for croissants and pastries =( Anyway, here’s a summary of what the study discovered:

Researchers at the University of Southampton found that a high fat diet during a woman’s pregnancy makes her offspring more likely to develop a severe form of fatty liver disease when they reach adulthood. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition associated with obesity and caused by the build up of fat in the liver. Professor Christopher Byrne explained: “This research shows that too much saturated fat in a mother’s diet can affect the developing liver of a fetus, making it more susceptible to developing fatty liver disease later in life. An unhealthy saturated fat-enriched diet in the child and young adult compounds the problem further causing a severe form of the fatty liver disease later in adult life.”