Roasted Nuts During Pregnancy?

Good news! Your baby's skin tone has already been decided. Nothing you do after conception can change that. Saffron, milk, banana et. al., will not make your baby fair. Tea, nuts and olive oil won't make him/her dark. Your mood however will have a strong impact on your baby's temperament. As long as your diet is healthy overall, eat whatever makes you happy and satisfies your cravings. If you're craving salted nuts then enjoy eating them.

 

Really? A quick darshan of Google-taata didn't turn up any substantial evidence.
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Really?

Stress and Mood Disorders During Pregnancy: Implications for Child Development

From the abstract: "The data indicate that we can detect fetal markers associated with alterations in women's mood that also are linked to differences in the neurobiological substrate of the fetus' emerging emotion regulation system. Identifying such fetal character-istics someday may contribute to the early detection and prevention of predispositions to childhood risk for emotional problems and even psychopatholgy."

Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Predicts Cognitive Ability and Fearfulness in Infancy

Changes of spine density and dendritic complexity in the prefrontal cortex in offspring of mothers exposed to stress during pregnancy

Stress During Pregnancy Affects General Intellectual and Language Functioning in Human Toddlers

Stress during pregnancy is associated with developmental outcome in infancy

A few. A search for "stress during pregnancy" should bring up many more on Google scholar. Most are paywalled. Can view if you have a university VPN.

Evidence exists. Enough to make us pay attention. Whether it is definitive is the subject of ongoing research.

 

OK. I had googled 'mood during pregnancy' and not stress.

"Your mood however will have a strong impact on your baby's temperament." is different from "Your stress levels will have a strong impact on baby's temperament.

Avoiding stress, or minimizing stress sources, during pregnancy, is certainly a no-brainer.

That being said, to my untrained eye, the evidence looks like the evidence on the benefits of breastfeeding. Meaning, breastfeeding is good, avoiding stress is good, but the absence of either not necessarily harmful.

 

How did I know you would say that? : ) I just did. That statement, as I meant it, is accurate.

I would assume it is easy to decipher the intent of my words. Sorry you weren't happy with my phrasing. But if you want to argue semantics, the very first paper does use the word 'mood'. Mood and stress are not disconnected. Biochemically they are concomitant states. Negative moods trigger a stress response. I could blather on about the neurochemistry of mood and stress but then you'd accuse me of writing an 'exposition'. Biologically, unhappy moods/stress trigger the same cortisol associated hormonal cascade, which we can deduce with some confidence lead to the stated outcomes. In the end the trigger is the cortisol response, which is why most research deals with stress and not the emotional states that lead to it.

OP, sorry for the diversion. Enjoy your salted nuts!

 

Please prefer unsalted roasted nuts compared to roasted salted nuts.
Anything in moderation is always OK.