When Pregnant Mom Eats Fish, Kids do Better

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When Pregnant Mom Eats Fish, Kids do Better

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Children of mothers who ate more fish and other seafood while pregnant are smarter and have better developmental skills than kids of women who ate less or none

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acupunked, on 2/16/2007 2:36:47 AM
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Too true
Nice one shouted

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skole, on 2/18/2007 1:08:28 AM
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Fish owns. The only thing better than a fish fillet is a tuna taco...

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ARDIA, on 2/18/2007 1:14:43 AM
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Many of these studies did not control for the mothers IQ...
Higher IQ mothers will have higher IQ kids.. a serious confounding factor if higher IQ mothers are more likely to eat fish.

Even if we take it as a given that eating fish would increase a unborn or infant baby's IQ, the question is still wide open whether the Verbal IQ score increase of 6 points is due to fish (the value typically observed) or only a fraction of that is due to fish.

This is not to say that fish doesnt have other benefits either, including possible neurological benefits (apart from IQ, perhaps personality factors like level of curiosity or nervousness)

Bottom Line: Ill feed my wife fish if shes pregnant, I think the mercury thing is overblown, and most of the mercury problems come from vaccines, not fish. But I would not expect a big jump in IQ for my kid because of it.

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EvaUnitZero, on 2/18/2007 1:51:53 AM
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My dear mummy ate cobalt when she was pregnant with me and it never did me any harm...oh goodness me - an anomaly. Excuse me whilst I lob bolts with bandages tied to them into it. Maybe I'll get me a nice artifact.

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meh., on 2/18/2007 9:35:31 AM
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Newsflash: When pregnant women drink water during pregnancy, there is a significantly higher chance of the baby being born.

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ruhojnave, on 2/18/2007 10:46:32 AM
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Newsflash #2: Women who s the d are more likely to get the cream filling

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M4H, on 2/19/2007 1:53:39 PM
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When Pregnant Mom Eats Fish, Kids do Better
Provided that fish is NOT full of heavy metals

then you get the kids of today.

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