Taking fish oil supplements in late pregnancy boosts baby's brainpower, study finds: NewsTarget.com

An Australian study published in the Dec. 21, 2006 edition of the online journal Archives of Disease in Childhood found that women who take high doses of fish oil supplements in the second half of pregnancy give birth to children with greater coordination and increased brainpower later in life.

Researchers from the University of Western Australia recruited 98 pregnant women who did not smoke and ate fish no more than twice per week. The researchers gave one group of women 4 grams (g) of daily fish oil supplements starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy, while the second group was given daily 4g supplements of olive oil from 20 weeks on.

When the women's children were 2.5 years old, the researchers administered growth and development tests. The children of the women who had taken fish oil supplements scored much higher in hand-eye coordination, comprehension, phrase length and vocabulary than the children of the women who had taken olive oil supplements.

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