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Your Pregnancy Diet May Affect Your Baby in Unexpected Ways, Scientists Say

Your mom is the reason you hate broccoli.

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If you were a fussy eater as a child, refusing vegetables because you thought they tasted gross, you now have one more thing to blame on your parents. According to new research published in Developmental Psychobiology, detailed by The Guardian, food preferences may start forming while you’re still in the womb, and they seem to depend heavily on what your mother ate during pregnancy.

Your mom is the reason you hate broccoli. Or, in the case of the study’s vegetable of choice, kale.

Researchers led by Durham University tracked how children reacted to certain vegetable smells years after being exposed to those same flavors before birth. During pregnancy, some mothers were given kale powder capsules while others took carrot powder capsules.........

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