Eating Licorice While Pregnant Can Change Your Baby?!
A group of 8 year olds who had mothers who ate large amounts of licorice while pregnant, acted different then the other children who’s mothers had not eaten large amounts of licorice. They also had bad attention spans and appeared to have ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder. There is a component in licorice called glycyrrhizin that may cause impairment on the placenta and allow stress to reach the baby. High levels of a hormone called glucocorticoids are thought to have been linked to bad behavior and fetal brain development. Scientists used the same questionaire for the mothers that consumed a lot of licorice that they use to monitor little childrens behaviors. The studied showed that they were corrupted by licorice. I believe that licorice can mess with your baby while you’re pregnant because it has lots of sugars. 64 children had high levels of glycyrrhizin, 46 had moderate levels, and 211 had low levels.
Do you think that licorice corrupts the brain during pregnancies or is it all in there heads?
Is this common enough to do a study and be able to say this is why?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006093349.htm
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The only way to do this experiment well is to take a large sample size and all through pregnancy have all of the mothers eat the same meals or very close to the same. Then take half and have them eat lots of licorice and have the other half not eat it. Then see what happens to the children. Short of that I wouldnt put much credit to this finding.
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Is this really true??? wow! i’m going to look that up! anyways, I do believe this is true. One of my friends had a baby 8 months ago and she is showing some signs of ADHD, and she ate alot of licorice while pregnant.
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I think that there is not a single chance that a pregnant women eating licorice can corrupt the brain during pregnancy. They can do all the studies they want, but I believe their not going to find anything that leads or proves that this is true.
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I think there’s a possibility that licorice corrupts the brain during pregnancy. It sounds a little odd to me, but anything is possible. I think that they should study it because you never know what a pregnant women is going to want to eat. It could be anything including licorice, so why not do the study, just for the heck of it?
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I think that the study is not reliable because they could of eaten thing that could of done it too but the amount of sugar could be part of it
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No I dont think that licorice currupts the babies heads because lots of children have ADHD and how could someting as small as some candy like licorice with glycyrrhizin make that much of a difference? I think that it’s too comon to do studies and be able to say tat the reason they have it is because their mothers ate alot of licorice
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With the results listed I think that licorice can really be affecting what is hapening to the children. I think someone should do a study on it to help prevent this from happenong a lot.
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I personally think this is ALL in their heads. What on earth does licorice have to do with your baby having something wrong with it? I don’t think this is common enough to study more because, if scientists really want to study what can make your baby have something wrong with it why don’t they study women who drink alcohol while pregnant? There is more important things to study than if licorice will do something to your child.
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I think that you would have to have more tests to prove something like this that its not as accurate as it seems. This is really random and I think you would have to be like really good to find out something like this but if it was true it would be putting the babies at risk.
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I dont really know if i believe this or not. I think that they should have more tests done, to see if that it is what actually caused everything.
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