Could bacon and eggs boost brain development in a mother’s unborn child?
New research suggests a link between eating foods like bacon and eggs and the brain development of a mother’s unborn child. Foods like bacon, eggs, liver and wheatgerm contain a nutrient that is essential to the development of a healthy brain according to new research out of the University of North Carolina. Dr. Steven Zeisel, Dr. Mihai G Mehedint and a team of other researchers focused on the nutrient choline and its effects on fetal brain development in mice. Using a group of pregnant mice, the team randomly split them up into two groups, one that received a normal diet and the other a diet without choline. Both groups received the diets after 11 days of pregnancy. After 17 days of pregnancy, researchers looked at an area of the fetal brains called the hippocampus, responsible for long-term memory and spatial navigation. They found that in the developing brains of baby rats that didn’t receive choline in the diet, a particular protein was missing. This missing protein essentially cau
