title: [Sugar consumption and prenatal acceleration. I. Studies in the history of medicine on the coincidence and connection of these 2 secular phenomenon].
abstract: A comparative historic evaluation reveals an astonishing world-wide relationship between prenatal acceleration, i.e. secular changes of birth-weight and percentage of "large babies", of distinct population groups, and their sugar consumption. They seem to be "connected" as they are regularly "conjoined" (HUME [46]). A statistically highly significant correlation between these two phenomena was established for Switzerland and Germany. The assumption of a causal relationship was confirmed by the abrupt development of growth acceleration together with the rapid increase in the per capita sugar consumption observed in an experiment-like situation in certain Canadian Eskimo populations in recent years.
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology*; D005858:Germany; D006128:Growth; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway; D011247:Pregnancy; D012737:Sex Factors; D013548:Sweden; D013557:Switzerland; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates
vernacular_title: Zuckerkonsum und pränatale Akzeleration. I. Medizinhistorische Untersuchungen über die Koinzidenz und den inneren Zusammenhang dieser beiden säkularen Phänomene