We often explain in Babies and more several tips about nutrition in pregnancy for an obvious reason, we are what we eat, and therefore it is important to always take care of our diet, but during pregnancy, the baby can also be what a mother eats and a recent study helps Show this what I comment.
This research wanted to know what the effect of junk food is when ingested during pregnancy and have observed that when a pregnant woman feeds on fast food, her child acquires a taste for her. That is the best way to get a child to want junk food is to eat it during pregnancy.
I do not need to talk much about the properties of fast food. Summarizing so as not to go into details, say that it has many calories and that, on the contrary, provides few nutrients. This makes it a type of food that is not recommended in an increasingly obese society.
As obesity during pregnancy, in addition, makes it more risk of complications such as hypertension, preeclampsia, diabetes and others, the ideal is to avoid all those foods that promote it (come on, take a balanced diet).
Returning again to the topic at hand, the research shows that changes in the maternal diet affect the opioid signaling circuit in the brain of the newborn. When we eat foods high in sugar and fat, our brain secretes opiates, making us feel good and making us, in a way, need those foods when we stop segregating them (say that our brain's response to this type of food is similar to what happens when addictive drugs are used).
What happens when a woman feeds on junk food during pregnancy is that Babies become more tolerant of junk food and they need to consume more of this meal, or more times, to get the same feeling of well-being. The clear consequence is that these babies will be children with a higher risk of obesity (if they end up "sinning" with an abuse of junk food) and consequently with a higher risk of suffering from diseases of cardiovascular origin.
The study was done with rats (everything must be said), but the researchers are very convinced that this same mechanism also happens in humans and therefore the results should be used to stimulate mothers to eat a balanced diet, not only so that there is not the aforementioned "malignant influence" during pregnancy, but also so that the same diet, later taken as a mother, stimulates the child to follow her too. You already know that many of the things our children do do them because we are their example.
