The Chinese have always advocated eating lots of fish when one is pregnant and also after birth. They believe that eating fish will result in a healthy baby. Guess the Chinese have made the right choice all these centuries.
Recent research in the United Kingdom have proven that pregnant women who eat fish will have long-lasting benefits for their babies. They found that pregnant women “eating less that 340g of fish and seafood a week was associated with a 48% increased risk of children being in the lowest group of verbal intelligence”. Not eating much fish and seafood can also result in the “increased risk of poorer behaviour, motor, communication and social development scores”.
So, what’s important for pregnant women now is to eat lots of fish and seafood, especially those that have high content of Omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids are very important for brain development. And it’s important to continue eating fish and seafood after birth as the Omega-3 fatty acids are passed via the breast milk that the baby drinks. Now I know why I had fish for lunch and dinner after my son was born!
Link (from BBC Health)
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