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Chocolate
Anyone?? (Good News For Pregnant Women)
LAPregnancy staff LOVES their chocolate and with news like this -
let's all rejoice!
LONDON (Reuters - April 6, 2004) -
Pregnant women rejoice.
Eating chocolate is good for the baby, say Finnish researchers.
Scientists at the
University of Helsinki, who asked 300 pregnant women to record their
chocolate consumption and stress levels, found that daily treats had
a positive impact on the baby's behavior.
Six months after the
infants were born the mothers who had eaten chocolate reported in
their offspring.
And the babies of
stressed women who had regularly consumed chocolate showed less fear
of new situations than babies of stressed women who had abstained,"
New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
Katri Raikkanen and
her colleagues who conducted the research admitted they can't be
certain that chocolate consumption and the babies' behavior are not
linked with other factors.
"But they speculate
that the effects they observed could result from chemicals in
chocolate associated with positive mood being passed on to the baby
in the womb," the magazine added.
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