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You are what your mother eats: study
But only if she is breastfeeding you.
Judy Ritchie

Source: Pediatrics
December 2007, Volume 120, Number 6, Pages 1247-1254
(doi:10.1542/peds.2007-0858)
"Early Determinants of Fruit and Vegetable Acceptance"
Authors: Catherine A. Forestell, and Julie A. Mennella  

03/12/2007 - A mother's likes and dislikes, particularly for fruit and
vegetables, is passed on to her infant during breastfeeding, suggests new
research from the US.

A study of 45 infants, just under half of which were breastfed, showed that
a baby's preference for a certain food is dependent on its mother's tastes,
but only if the baby is breastfed, report researchers in this month's issue
of Pediatrics.

The study deepens our understanding of the evolution of taste preferences,
and could aid the development of modern tools for both nutritional
counselling and food development.

Such research may also help explain why children and adults like and dislike
foods and could be important for the understanding of eating problems, such
as obesity with over 22 million children under five are severely overweight.

"Vegetable and fruit consumption is linked to lower risks of obesity and
certain cancers," said senior author Julie Mennella from the Monell Chemical
Senses Center. "The best predictor of how much fruits and vegetables
children eat is whether they like the tastes of these foods. If we can get
babies to learn to like these tastes, we can get them off to an early start
of healthy eating."

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