Eating junk food during pregnancy might have a bigger impact on childhood obesity, liver disease and diabetes than whether a mother is overweight. Monkeys who ate a high-fat diet of potato chips ...

Godzilla, a macaque monkey from Bangkok, Thailand, is being sent to "fat camp" after ballooning to 44 pounds -- twice that of a typical adult of his species.

But baby monkeys from mothers who were fed a high-fat diet (over 35 percent of calories from fat, modeled after a typical American diet) had a much stronger reaction to an encounter with the spud man, ...

The heartbreaking stories of Uncle Fatty and Godzilla: Chunky monkey who 'ate himself to death' with junk food and the obese tank top-wearing primate who had to go to fat camp in Thailand ...

Baby monkeys receive signals through their mother's breast milk that affect behavior and temperament. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 03 ...

Baby monkeys are dying because of the effects of palm oil plantations, ... We also know that certain fat-soluble molecules can be passed on through breastmilk," Holzner said in a press release.

Although all of the monkeys in the study were fed the same diet, the researchers found natural variation in the quantity and richness of the milk generated by the 59 mothers. Milk from mothers who ...