Labels by nature
Sweet and bitter tastes are peculiar "labels" by which nature supplied desirable and unwanted products to humans. Sweet signaled to primitive collectors about glucose - the source of energy necessary for the work of the brain and muscles, the bitter warned that the plant, perhaps, is poisonous. The taste receptors that react to the sweet begin to work in the baby when he first tries breast milk (which is a little sweet). However, even before the first feeding, before birth, in the prenatal state, the fetus is already able to "recognize" various tastes. During the study of the dynamics of swallowing fetal movements, it was found that in response to the introduction of sweet and salty substances into the amniotic fluid, the future baby preferred sweets. Already in the first few hours of life, newborns make it clear that they can differentiate between tastes. Sweet causes them to relax the facial muscles and sucking movements, sour - a grimace of discontent. In response to the bitter, in addition to grimace, the child also puts out the tongue, as if pushing something out of his mouth. But the genetic ability to recognize tastes is not the only mechanism that shapes our preferences and controls them. There are others explaining, in particular, why one of the two babies grows into a sweet tooth, and the other is not. Let's start with this ... The taste preferences of the future baby form the diet of his mother.
Mom's dinner
The amniotic fluid in which the baby is swimming contains a kind of "report" about everything that a woman ate. And with this "record" the fruit constantly gets to know each other. Moreover, it remembers its content. Thus, in the work of an international group of scientists headed by V. Schaal, newborns were examined, whose mothers ate anis during pregnancy. Their babies positively reacted to a hundred peculiar smell, unlike those kids whose parents did not use apis during pregnancy, these smells did not like the smell at all. For another study published in the US in the journal Pediatrics in 2001, scientists divided women in the last trimester of pregnancy into three groups. Mothers from the first group drank carrot juice, and after the birth of the child. When the kids grew to 5-6 months, the scientists checked how they would perceive porridge with carrots. The worst of all were the babies of mothers from the third group, that is, those who did not drink carrot juice at all. And the least negatively perceived the taste of carrots kids of those mothers who during pregnancy drank carrot juice, and in the first two months of feeding - water. Intermediate position was occupied by the children of the second group, whose mothers at the last trimester drank water, and in the first two months of feeding - carrot juice. That is, to a useful dish - a porridge with carrots - it was easier to get used to children who got acquainted with the taste of this root in the prenatal period and in the first months of feeding.
Since the tenth attempt
The infant is either on breastfeeding or on artificial feeding. Breast - reflects the taste characteristics of the mother's diet and gives the child an idea of the existing variety of tastes. Artificial - "monotonous" in terms of taste and introduces only the taste of the formula. This is the basis for the assumption that babies who have grown up on breastfeeding take better the taste of new dishes. And artificers, with their experience of "monotonous" nutrition, often relate to innovation negatively. And this is confirmed by research. In one of them, Sullivan and Birch, the reaction of the toddlers to the introduction of a vegetable into the diet was studied, and the ratio of the two groups, the children who were breastfed and the artificial ones, was compared, and so the children from the first group were more likely to accept the vegetables already at the first sentence, but under one condition: if the nursing mother herself ate them regularly, the period of introduction of complementary foods, when along with breast milk or a mixture the baby starts to get mashed potatoes - vegetable, fruit, meat - is considered very important for the formation of future taste preferences. to say "a fool for vegetables can be very difficult - an instant grimace of discontent, and he pulls out of his mouth an unfamiliar taste, though very useful to him now and important for his or her future figure dish.There are some sort of tricks that help to make children with food They should be offered repeatedly - up to 10-12 times, each attempt increases the chance of vegetables being accepted, this is proved in serious scientific research. In addition, according to most scientists, the priority is important: the first to feed are vegetable mashed potatoes or cereals without sugar and only then fruit purees. Because the fruit is more sweet and, having rasprobovav them, the child is more likely to refuse from vegetables and cereals. But now, after growing up, he begins to eat from a common table, and the time of the next factor comes. Traditions and eating habits of the family also form our taste preferences.
Adult solutions
You can tell as much as you like that vegetables and cereals are useful, but if the adults do not eat them, then most likely, their children will not eat either. And a positive attitude towards these dishes can not be sufficiently formed. If the sweets are not translated at home, if the baby receives candy or a cake, once she masters the ability to hold them in her hand and brought to her mouth, it can be safely assumed that she will grow up as a sweet tooth. Also what turns out? It turns out that the adult person consciously did not influence the formation of his taste preferences. The genes were influenced. Influenced the diet and the conditions in which the nurturing mother lived. Influenced the choice of the type of feeding - thoracic or artificial, that from the person we are talking about, did not depend. Influence of lure, the timing and sequence of its introduction, the tradition of nutrition in the family. And what can he do now, when all for him and without him decided? He can consciously change his taste habits and preferences. Crazy love for sweets is not a drug addiction, it's just an unreasonably developed preference for this kind of products. Dislike for vegetables is not a life sentence, an appeal is not a subject, but a problem that can be solved. If there is a motive for losing weight, if its necessity is realized, then everything will turn out, and childhood mistakes - stereotypes of incorrect eating behavior - can be corrected.