Many Asian cultures didn't need a study on rats and junk food to tell them this. There are a few superstitions on what to eat and what not to eat while pregnant so that the child turns out in a certain way. One of the sillier ones that has definitely been disproved is that if a mother ate twin bananas, she would bear twins.

On a side note, what you eat when you breastfeed has an effect, too. My youngest brother was born in the States, and he kept having these rashes. My mother suggested to her American doctor that it might be something she was eating and passing through her breastmilk. The doctor disagreed and told her to try all kinds of different treatments, but my brother's rashes wou...

Many Asian cultures didn't need a study on rats and junk food to tell them this. There are a few superstitions on what to eat and what not to eat while pregnant so that the child turns out in a certain way. One of the sillier ones that has definitely been disproved is that if a mother ate twin bananas, she would bear twins.

On a side note, what you eat when you breastfeed has an effect, too. My youngest brother was born in the States, and he kept having these rashes. My mother suggested to her American doctor that it might be something she was eating and passing through her breastmilk. The doctor disagreed and told her to try all kinds of different treatments, but my brother's rashes wouldn't go away.

When we came home, the Filipino doctor believed in the food-and-breastmilk idea and told my mother to change her diet. In the next couple of days, my brother's rashes disappeared completely.

That was ten years ago. What do American doctors say now?