The study results revealed that women who ate fish while pregnant gave birth to babies who by age 3 had significantly better cognitive and fine-motor skills than those whose mothers didn’t eat fish during pregnancy.
The 3-year-olds from the women who reported eating more than 2 servings of fish per week performed better than average on tests that assessed receptive vocabulary and visual-spatial, visual-motor, and fine-motor skills.
This result is significant because the most important time of development for our brains is before we are born. Almost all of our neurons have been created by the time of our mothers’ second trimesters, when the critical process of establishing the correct interconnections is taking place. (more…)
