Pregnant, and your Doctor Tells You Not to Eat Any Fish? Here's What Science Says:

By: Jean Carper

Pregnant women should eat omega-3 fat in fish to nourish fetal brains. Yet some fish are high in methylmercury, PCBs and dioxins - toxins that harm developing nervous systems.

Here is the current advice for women who are pregnant or might become pregnant, as well as nursing mothers and young children.

Don't eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish. Don't eat any fish skin, a prime repository of toxins.
Cut back on tuna: no more than 6 ounces of canned albacore (white) tuna a week, and no more than 12 ounces weekly of "light" tuna, says the FDA. Consumers Union advises only 3 ounces of albacore weekly for women and none for children.
Do eat high omega-3 sardines and salmon (choose wild salmon; almost all canned salmon is wild). Farmed salmon is a bit higher in PCBs; no salmon tested high in mercury. Also safe, but with less omega-3 fat: flounder, sole, tilapia, catfish, shellfish.

Pregnant women should ask their doctors about omega-3 supplements.

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