Irresistible craving for junk food? Blame it on your Mommy Dear!!
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Ditch the Junk Food
Growing Popularity of Junk Food
Dear Mr. Slim, Your services suck
That’s what a new research suggests. Several times this question may have popped up in your mind, Why the hell am I not able to resist that lip smacking burger? Isn’t it? So here goes the answer. If the recent study is to be believed then the reason behind your craving is all thanks to what your mother ate during pregnancy.
The researchers claim that pregnant woman who is more into savoring junk food can expect to have infants, who will have an irresistible craving for it in their adolescents. So now you can accuse your mommy dearest for not able to give up that extra cheese burger.
The study lays down the fact that the high salt and fat levels in junk food diets have the capacity to reprogram unborn and breastfeeding infant’s food preferences.
Commenting on the research findings, lead author Beverly Muhlhausler, from the FOODplus Research Centre in the School of Agriculture Food and Wine at the University of Adelaide, Australia, said,
“These results will help us to better help women about diet during pregnancy and breastfeeding for giving their infants the best start in life."
Research Findings:
To arrive at this interesting conclusion, the researchers performed a lab test on pregnant rats as well as at the time of their lactation period. They were split in two groups. One group was fed with normal rat feed and the other was fed with junk food that human beings consumed.
The results of the weaning process were interesting as later on the pups were given a choice of two diets. The pups of mothers who were on junk food had more craving to pick up the unhealthy diet. On the contrary the pups from other group chose to select the standard rat feed.
In nutshell, kids of mothers who have excessive junk food while they are pregnant are at higher risk of getting least resistant to unhealthy food as they grow up.
On a positive note, due to this finding, the experts will be in a better position to advice expecting mothers regarding the importance of having a healthy balanced diet.
Source : topnews
