There are several studies that suggest that preferring high-fat foods in pregnancy predisposes children to prefer them also after birth.
It is increasingly evident that what we eat throughout the months of pregnancy directly influences the health of our children. In that sense, an experiment conducted with rats by researchers at Rockefeller University has discovered a fact that could be related to the large increase in obesity in recent years.
Exposure to a high fat diet in the womb produces changes in the baby's brain that stimulate appetite raising the risk of obesity in the first years of life.
Researchers have concluded that:
Infants born to mothers who ate a fatty diet ate more, even after their diet was eliminated when they were born, weighed more throughout their lives and began puberty earlier than those born to mothers who took the balanced diet. Same period of time.
The study demonstrates how it affects the mother's diet in a greater manufacture of peptide-producing neurons in the offspring, which stimulate appetite and maintain this preference throughout life.
If the same brain mechanism is confirmed in humans we could say that we are programming our children from pregnancy to be obese.
