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As part of a decade’s worth of research on how females change their reproductive decisions in response to their diet, specifically what they eat when they are young half of a group of females were given a good-quality balanced diet while the other half were fed a less balanced diet.

The effects of unbalanced meals continued throughout their lives, even for the few that were switched to a good-quality balanced diet later in the study. In addition, the females that ate a poor-quality diet were less willing to make reproductive decisions and less likely to produce offspring.   What does this mean for the females in your home?  Could the quality of your young daughter’s diet be affecting her adult reproductive life?

It would seem that though cockroaches may be tiny enough to slip through the smallest of cracks, just like humans, these eternal pests are adversely effected by an unhealthy diet. Didn’t I mention this was a study on cockroaches? My bad!  (Read More —>)