Eating fish during your pregnancy increases the chance that your baby will come out smarter?  Read more to know all about "fishy business."

It is known that fish is high in Omega 3, which accelerates brain cell connection and function. It is also beneficial in varicose vein treatment, rheumatoid arthritis and much more.

Harvard Medical School researchers examined fish consumptions during pregnancy. They found that fish is useful when mercury levels are low. In fish where levels were high, the Omega 3 did not reach its potential.

In another research, over a hundred mothers after birth participated, giving hair samples for mercury inspection.  Their babies were tested as well by memory tests.  In this test they measured brain and vision functions.  Babies, whose mothers ate fish with low mercury levels regularly, scored much higher in these tests, and babies whose mothers ate fish with high levels, were left behind.

The lesson is that fish is beneficial and may help produce a new Mozart or Einstein, but you will need to pay attention to mercury levels.  Fish high in mercury levels also contain a substance called methylmercury, which can hurt your fetus.

This does mean rejecting fish all together. The FDA recommends a pregnant women to eat twelve ounces of fish low in methylmercury such as shrimp, flounder, salmon, sole, halibut, cod, catfish, snapper, sea bass, perch and pollock. The fish to avoid are maccarel, tilefish and shark.

Fish can be a huge plus for your baby's nutrition and development. The only thing is to monitor what you eat.  It's not that fishy, is it?

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