Talking on eclipse

Do the following have any scientific explanation or simply superstitious?

1. Should not take food during eclipse (rather there should not be any undigested food in the stomach during that time)

2. Should take head bath after eclipse – to ward of the evil?

3. Exposure of pregnant ladies to eclipse would lead to the birth of handicapped children

Many others are off shoots of these basic beliefs. Similar beliefs may be there in other religions as well……they are all from the fear the ancient civilisations had when strange things appear in nature from simple regular features like lightning to rarer phenomenon like earthquake  then to still very rare appearances of comets etc., they believed these as fury of God and  His anger has to be calmed….

There can be a bit of explanation for solar eclipse as there would be an increase in the UV radiation but that too its overdoing is unexplainable; but the lunar eclipse is a celestial phenomenon worth gazing; isn’t it? 

We simply obeyed our elders; the next generation won’t. Escaping the riddle by pronouncing that ‘our hindu custom is centuries old and the present understanding of science is limited, etc., ‘ is putting the debate under the rug; 

If anyone has any tangible scientific explanation on eclipse based superstitions, they may kindly share  to enable escaping from the dichotomy of non-belief and blind performer of rituals- a paradox of the present generation- neither there nor here?