Eat more fruit and veggies during your
pregnancy and your child will be much more open to eating healthy later on in
life.
Kids whose mums eat a varied diet during
pregnancy and breastfeeding tend to have a penchant for those foods as they
grow up.
Dr Julie Mennella at the Monell Centre in
Philadelphia found the link between a mother's diet and her child's food
preferences after she studied 46 babies between the ages of six and 12 months,
focusing on this link.
Mennella was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying
that her findings clearly show that children begin getting sensory information
while still in the womb.
In one experiment, she found that those babies
whose mothers regularly drank carrot juice ate twice as much carrot-flavoured
cereal when they were being weaned.
Further to this, Mennella found that those babies
who were given fruit and veg to munch on while they were being introduced to
solid foods were far more likely to eat them later on.
In yet another test, babies were fed green beans
for eight days. On the first day, they consumed about 50g of green beans, but
by day eight that consumption had improved to 80g.
Whether breast or bottle-fed, Mennella believes
babies will easily learn to eat healthy food if parents persist with giving
them a range of fruit and veg when they begin solid foods.
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