Gestational diabetes is thought to be the consequence of:
a) pregnant women decreasing their average daily amount of activity.
b) a mother withholding investment in future offspring in order to invest more in the current pregnancy.
c) a mother consuming too much sugar during gestation.
d) conflict between the mother and fetus with respect to how much food the fetus should be given; the mother is equally related to the fetus and to any future offspring, while the fetus is not equally related to itself and any subsequent siblings
e) physiological constraints on the amount of insulin a mother can provide for the fetus.

Answer

d

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diabetes is a disorder involved with insulin and blood sugar levels of blood glucose levels. Type one diabetes is one from birth you cannot produce insulin or your body are sort of doesn't agree with the intel when you make and you need to be given insulin. Additionally, Type two diabetes is when you have sort of overdosed on sugar in a way over your life so that your body becomes resistant to the insulin you produce and it doesn't do it. It's jobs as well, so you also need to take insulin and some medicine. Gestation is the period during which a female is pregnant, and they can experience um, similar symptoms to diabetes while they're pregnant, even if they're not diabetic. And this comes from the fact that even in a person without diabetes, it takes some effort to, um, keep your blood sugar levels, um, balance and at the right levels. So you can imagine that when you have a fetus or even multiple notices, um, their blood sugar levels need to be controlled to, so they need to get insulin. But they also need to get distributed food and not just food and nutrition, but the right amount of it. And this isn't always easy, especially for the females. If she's not getting enough food than there's a discrepancy somewhere, either she's gonna end up with more food to maintain her health or the fetus is going to get it. And one of their blood sugars, they're gonna be out of whack. You see, it's a very, um, tight balance that needs to be kept, and it's not always easy.

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