By: SUZY TURNER
RESEARCH BY The Wellcome Trust has found that eating junk food in pregnancy and while breast feeding can make children overweight when they grow up.
The study showed that mothers who regularly eat cakes, biscuits, sweets and crisps can pass on the taste for such foods to their babies.
Stephanie Boyd, from London’s Royal Veterinary College said: “Our study has shown that eating large quantities of junk food when pregnant and breast feeding could impair the normal control of appetite and promote an exacerbated taste for junk food in offspring. This could send offspring on the road to obesity and make the task of teaching healthy eating habits in children even more challenging”.
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