Children who have developed any kind of ‘Neuro-Developmental Abnormalities (NDA)’ in the womb leading to brain’s disability to grow normally are more prone to fall into some sort of addiction in their later lives. During the first three months of pregnancy which are vital to the normal growth of a child’s brain, if the mother is exposed to starvation and hunger, it has an unfavorable impact on the mental health of the offspring which he carries forward in his adult life too, showing more vulnerability towards addictive behavior.

This has been brought to light by the researchers, from the “Dutch Mental Health Care Organization”, ‘Bouman GGZ’, and ‘Erasmus University’, Rotterdam ,during one of their studies, who studied men and women born in Rotterdam between 1944 and 1947, the time of the Dutch ‘hunger winter‘.

They could observe a startling relation between the adults who had been receiving treatment for their addictive disorders and the history of their mothers who encountered severe food shortages and starvation during their early pregnancy.

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