Eating fish during pregnancy ups your child’s IQ

Children whose mothers ate an average of three to four servings during their pregnancy, had IQ scores that were 2.8% higher than those whose mothers ate less fish, experts say

    All you mothers-to-be reading this, take note. Eating fish every week during pregnancy may improve your child’s IQ and decrease their risk of developing some of the early signs of autism, a new study has claimed. Researchers studied about 2,000 mothers and their children, starting from the mothers’ first trimester of pregnancy, and continuing until the children turned 5.

Results showed that children whose mothers ate an average of three to four servings during their pregnancy showed no signs that mercury in fish negatively affected their developmental health. These children had IQ scores that were 2.8% higher than those whose mothers ate less fish, the study found