article_snippet: Smoke from burned food in the kitchen can damage the brains of unborn babies, scientists say.
article_snippet: Similarly, pollution from coal fires and traffic fumes disrupts parts of the developing brain that support information processing and behaviour.
article_snippet: Experts are warning that smoke from burned food in the kitchen can damage the brains of unborn babies .
article_snippet: The US study are contained in vehicles fumes, coal fires or oil central heating systems, power plants, wildfires and agricultural burning, tobacco smoke and hazardous waste sites .
article_snippet: Traffic fumes, pollution from coal fires and smoke from burnt food disrupts parts of the developing brain that support information processing and behaviour .
article_snippet: Traffic fumes, pollution from coal fires and smoke from burnt food disrupts parts of the developing brain that support information processing and behaviour were part of a cohort of more than 600 mother-baby pairs from which Columbia University's researchers had previously reported exposure to airborne PAH during gestation was associated with multiple neurodevelopmental disturbances.
highlights_snippet: Smoke from food, pollution, coal fires and traffic disrupts the development .
  
highlights_snippet: Children showed signs of depression at seven if exposed to the smoke .