Chocolate Babies

Sweet babies: chocolate consumption during pregnancy and infant temperament at six months.

BACKGROUND Chocolate contains several biologically active components potentially having behavioral and psychological consequences. AIMS We tested whether chocolate consumption and stress experiences during pregnancy predict mother-rated infant temperament at 6 months. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS Prenatal frequency of chocolate consumption and intensity of psychological stress experience of the moth...

First Opinion: Babies, Babies, and More Babies

Chocolate equals stop. Chocolate-specific inhibition training reduces chocolate intake and go associations with chocolate.

Earlier research has demonstrated that food-specific inhibition training wherein food cues are repeatedly and consistently mapped onto stop signals decreases food intake and bodyweight. The mechanisms underlying these training effects, however, remain unclear. It has been suggested that consistently pairing stimuli with stop signals induces automatic stop associations with those stimuli, thereb...

Learning to Dislike Chocolate: Conditioning Negative Attitudes toward Chocolate and Its Effect on Chocolate Consumption

Evaluative conditioning (EC) procedures can be used to form and change attitudes toward a wide variety of objects. The current study examined the effects of a negative EC procedure on attitudes toward chocolate, and whether it influenced chocolate evaluation and consumption. Participants were randomly assigned to the experimental condition in which chocolate images were paired with negative sti...

Babies

This little brochure is an altogether admirable one for the expectant mother and mother. In simple language it deals with the ordinary problems of maternity from a non-technical standpoint. The expectant mother is counselled to consult her medical adviser twice during pregnancy: once within the first three months, to ward off such dangers as eclampsia, osteomalacia and the like; the second time...