The specific taste preferences of children who are sometimes so upset parents, linked with genetics, and not with bad parenting. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from University College London.
Parents suiting dancing with a tambourine around the child, who does not want to eat, can breathe a sigh of relief. Children's moodiness and specific food preferences, for the most part, are the result of genetics, not bad parenting, as established by British scientists. Overall, the study showed that the children's moodiness about food only half explained by genetics and half by external circumstances. However, if the baby refuses to try new foods, the very same external circumstances are only responsible for 22% of its behavior.
The remaining 78% accounted for by genetics, but it does suggest that parents are fighting to genetic factors when trying to introduce your baby with some new products. To obtain these results, researchers used different sets of twins, since monozygotic twins share the same genes as neodnoyaytsevye - only 50% of the genome.
Therefore, when identical twins are alike reacted to discover new food, that is, they showed so very capricious, it talks about the influence of genes. However, if identical twins and neodnoyaytsevye behaved in a similar way, it is evidence of the influence of any external circumstances, but not genetics. Vrochem, according to scientists, although children's taste preferences and have a pronounced genetic factor, it does not mean that the child's behavior can not be influenced.
"Genes do not determine the destiny of man - as the researchers emphasize. - We know a lot of genetic characteristics that can be changed, such as weight. Our findings are useful for new studies to determine the importance of the external circumstances of taste preferences in the youngest children, which will help to change their behavior. "
