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Fetal alcohol exposure primes babies for alcoholism?

Categories: Nutrition & Supplements

A new study just released concluded that exposure to alcohol while in the womb makes acclimating to it after birth more likely. The study, which was performed on rats (of course), said that those unborn rats learn to "like alcohol" when exposed to it and are then more drawn to it after birth as young rats.

Is this applicable to humans? Questionable, as many studies on rats are. Although many of us know about fetal alcohol syndrome, this study is quite different in studying the propensity to possible alcoholism that could be a result of exposure while still in the womb.

What do you think? Recent studies have shown than teens exposed to alcohol while a fetus are more likely to abuse it when reaching teenage years. Is this recent study further proof?

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