Video: Eating habits are inherited
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
Be careful with chips, cakes and other so-called junk food, and especially during pregnancy. As meticulous British scientists have found, consuming such high-calorie, but low-nutritional foods, expectant mothers develop cravings for unhealthy foods in their baby.
Researchers at the British Royal Veterinary College conducted the following experiment - they fed pregnant rats with those very sweet to heart, but not very useful, cakes, chips and sweets. In some rats, this "harmful" diet lasted until the very moment of childbirth and even while feeding the young with milk.
Then the pups were divided into two groups. Some of those whose mothers ate well received nothing but the same nutritious foods, and the offspring of junk food rats and the rest of the "big ones" were given a mixture of healthy and unhealthy foods - and watched which they chose.
Fiona Ford, a nutritionist at the University of Sheffield, believes that while there is no convincing evidence that everything described will have the same effect on humans as it does on rats, and you should not drive into the guilt complex of women who are addicted to "unhealthy" snacks during pregnancy …
As a result, the group, which included only properly fed young animals, consumed the least food. Their brethren, whose mothers ate healthy food, but who were suddenly offered low-quality foods, had a much more noticeable appetite.
The researchers believe that the "pleasure substances" produced by pregnant rats while eating fatty foods may have influenced the development of the brains of babies in the womb. This study suggests that - at least in rats - overconsumption of unhealthy foods during pregnancy may harm the infant's health.
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