Babies Learn To Like Junk Food In The Womb
Ah ha!! I knew it. Eating disgusting food is a generational thing … like pretty much everything else.
Pregnant women who “eat for two” by upping their intake of fatty and sugary food could unwittingly be putting their children at risk of obesity, new research suggests.
The same applies to mothers who are breastfeeding, scientists have warned.
Unborn babies and developing infants can have their eating habits programmed by their mothers’ food choices, according to the findings.
Children exposed to “maternal junk food” in the womb or early in life may find it harder to resist an unhealthy diet as they grow older, say the researchers.
(HT: Carol)
And some babies with gorgeous eyes love to stand around and eat hair bands whether their mothers ate them during pregnancy or not.
“Babies Learn To Like Junk Food In The Womb” has been splattered on 4 times.
I never had cravings for junk food during preganancy. It was mostly fruit with Aletheia and steak & tomatoes with this one. Sugary things usually come right back up and I have no desire for them.
Theia does like a piece of chocolate every so often. ;-)
Interesting article. I wonder if this also holds true for food allergies. I ate tons of peanut butter during pregnancy and while nursing. I am going to be so much more careful the next time.
Personal experience tells me there’s not much to this one. My mother ate only the healthiest of things during my term. Veggies by the boatfull, liver (”research” at the time suggested this was vital), and all the other hippie, natural, healthy stuff.
And me? I had a natural revulsion to vegetables so strong that until a couple years ago, the One vegetable I could eat was artichoke. Over the last couple years, I’ve also embraced carrots and spinach (raw only), but I don’t see myself running headlong toward any other veggies in the near future.
On the other hand, I have always had an almost unholy taste for alternative foods (aka Skittles, Pringles, Circus Animal Cookies, 31 Flavors, etc.).
Really, I don’t know how anyone knows which one of these studies to go with. There may be something to one or two of them, but there are so many and they more often than not offer information that contradicts other studies. The preponderance of these things was one of the first things that made me doubt the utility of the internet after all.
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Valerie (Kyriosity) | 6:51 PM, Thursday, August 16, 2007
So this means that your pre-natal diet was high in elastic? ;-)