What fish doesn't have mercury in it however? that would be the worse thing to put into a pregnant woman Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Feldman <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 5:33 PM Subject: Eat Fish for Healthy Pregnancy, Doctors Say > Thu Feb 21, 7:16 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Eating fish can improve a woman's > chances of having a full-term pregnancy and a healthy, bouncy baby, Danish > researchers said on Friday. > They suspect that fish, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, can increase > the child's birth weight by prolonging the pregnancy and preventing premature > births. He and his colleagues compared the diets of 8,000 Danish women during > pregnancy to determine if seafood had an impact on early births. "Low > consumption of fish was a strong risk factor for pre-term delivery and low > birth weight," said Sjurour Frooi Olsen, a researcher at the Statens Serum > Institute in Copenhagen. In the study reported in the British Medical > Journal, the women were asked how often they ate fish during their pregnancy > and whether it was in a hot meal, salad or if they took a fish oil > supplement. The researchers found that women who ate the most fish had fewer > premature births and smaller babies than those who did not. Pre-term > deliveries fell from 7.1 percent in women who never ate fish to 1.9 percent > in expectant mothers who ate fish at least once a week. Olsen said his > findings agreed with previous studies which found a link between fish > consumption and full-term pregnancies. Oily fish such as salmon, herring and > mackerel are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which have also been found to be > effective in fighting depression and in inhibiting the growth of prostate > cancer (&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw">news</A> - <A HREF="http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/sear ch?p=Prostate%20cancer&cs=nw">web sites</A>) cells.