A new study has found that mothers who consume foods during pregnancy sugar and fat, may put their children at greater risk of drug and alcohol addiction.
Scientists studied rats and found that the offspring of rodents fed with too much fat and sugar were more likely to be consuming alcohol.
They also observed that rats who ate foods with high sugar values were more likely to have little to respond with force against drug addiction.
Researchers were led by Dr. Nicole Avena at the University of Florida, said: "Most women in the U.S. have children who are overweight, and this is most likely due to mbingrënies the delicious food, the saturated fat, the level high sugar that you find everywhere in our society. "
'Increased prenatal obesity and increase the number of young people who abuse alcohol and drugs deserves looking into all possible roots of these growing problems "- they said.