Processed food linked to poorer mental health
27th August 2013
By Staff writer
Associate Professor Felice Jacka, from Deakin University, collaborated in a study of 23,000 Norwegian mothers.
It found a clear link between intake of junk food in pregnancy – including processed meats, sweet drinks and refined cereals – and externalising behaviours such as aggression in offspring.
J Am Acad Child Psy 2013; in press