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.
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