One Potential Way to Get Smarter

We all know fish is “brain food”, because seafood like fish contains the greatest amount of amega-3 acids which experts say are important for human brain development, and more over, essential for optimal fetal brain development. In fact, we can also draw the conclusion by our own practice-the more often we eat fish, the clearer our brain can be.

Three years ago, the U.S. government warned pregnant and nursing women to cut back on the amount of seafood they eat, because it was found to be contaminated by mercury.

Since then, more than half the pregnant and nursing women in the U.S. have followed the government’s advice.

Now, a group of top American scientists is advising these women to ignore the federal recommendations and to eat at least three servings of fish and seafood per week-340 grams-to give their babies their chance for brain development.

They says they have learned that seafood is an essential nutrient to fetal neurological development as well as infant neurological development, and the benefits of eating fish in pregnancy outweigh any potential risk.

Another team of medical researchers analyzed extensive child development data and concluded that children whose mothers ate the portions recommended by the U.S. government scored lower on intelligence tests than children whose mother ate 340 grams or more of seafood while they were pregnant and nursing.

Maybe it’s time for mothers to take another direction now.