what the mother likes to eat during pregnancy and what the child likes to eat in the future. A new study confirms that the eating habits of laboratory rats can indeed affect the development of neural correlates in the brain of mice. This achievement reminds women to pay attention to healthy diet during pregnancy to help them develop healthy eating habits.
B (Proceedings of the Royal Society B) in the new British Journal B (Proceedings of the Royal Society B) reported that researchers such as the University of Colorado provided different tastes to mice during pregnancy and lactation, one of the experimental mice insipid, and the other two groups of experimental mice. The diet has a strong cherry flavor and mint flavor. The researchers found that when compared with the insipid diet group, the "smelling balls" in the brain of the other two diet groups were significantly larger than those in the insipid diet group. When they chose food, they showed a tendency to taste the same as the mother's diet, while those in the light and unflavorless diet had no obvious bias. OK.
Dr. Josephine Todlank, a participant in the study, explained that when the fetus develops in the mother's womb, it will think that all the food ingredients in the mother's body are safe and remember the taste of the food in the nervous system as a basis for their future search for food. This is a good strategy for mice who need food everywhere after birth. Todd Fank said that humans and mice are mammals as well, so this study is also applicable to humans.
researchers say this results mean that pregnant women need to keep healthy eating habits, such as not drinking, in addition to nutritional considerations. If the fetus feels the taste of alcohol, the possibility of alcohol abuse will increase in the future; if pregnant women eat more healthy food, it will help the child to have healthy eating habits in the future.