If you are pregnant, you can and should eat fish. So says a nonprofit group, National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, and we actually reported the same thing a while back. Some women give up fish out of mercury fear, but the recommended guidelines have been no more than 12 ounces a week for a while. Now Healthy Mothers is saying you should eat at least 12 ounces because the omega-3 fatty acids in fish make your babies smarter and more likely to get into a leading school and laugh merrily at Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and do the Friday crossword in an hour. Or something like that. Just go for herrings and sardines. Yeah, no pregnancy nausea there.

Now, there's a certain amount of eyebrow narrowing over the fact that the nonprofit is publicizing these recommendations using a grant from the National Fisheries Institute. Ooooh, money in the mix, there must be a bias! Course the fish groups didn't fund the research. And I'm mildly bugged because the truth is, industry money actually funds lots of studies on food benefits, something you just don't hear about that often because 30 bajillion studies come out a day and reporters don't have time to follow the money unless there's a big stink. Does that mean we can't trust these studies at all? I think most researchers are trying pretty hard to produce accurate results that can be replicated, and the problem may be more in what gets studied rather than the actual findings. I'm pimping this perspective from Scientific American all the time because I think it's good on the subject. Bottom line: I don't think this campaign is any more fishy than others... Oh, please tell me I didn't just pun that.