Maternal “junk‐food” feeding of rat dams alters food choices and development of the mesolimbic reward pathway in the offspring

ABSTRACT Individuals exposed to high‐fat, high‐sugar diets before birth have an increased risk of obesity in later life. Recent studies have shown that these offspring exhibit increased preference for fat, leading to suggestions that perinatal exposure to high‐fat, high‐sugar foods results in perman... View More