A new study out of University of Adelaide seems to link a junk food diet during pregnancy, to offspring craving those very same foods too, and at an early age. In fact, regular consumption of these “junk foods,” during pregnancy and while nursing your baby, seemed to program babies to have heightened cravings, even addictions to those foods, by the time they are weaned.
One of the explanations for this phenomenon seems to be a desensitization to “brain reward” as the growing fetus...
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