If you don’t want an obese child, then you should take this research really serious.
According to researchers from the University of Crete in Greece, children are more likely to be obese if their mother ate a lot of fish while she was pregnant.
According to the researchers, high consumption of fish during pregnancy raised the chance of a child being overweight by 22 per cent.
The researchers believe this is because fish has low levels of pollutants especially mercury which may alter the hormones of mother and child.
The researchers made this amazing discovery after compiling data from 26,000 pregnant women in Europe and the US, tracking their children until the age of six.
According to the researchers, women who ate fish more than three times a week were 14 percent more likely to have an overweight child at the age of four and 22 percent more likely at the age of six.
“Contamination by environmental pollutants in fish could provide an explanation for the observed association between high fish intake in pregnancy and increased childhood adiposity,” study author, Dr Leda Chatzi said.
The effect of fish consumption during pregnancy resulting in obese children was greater among girls than in boys.
The study was published in the journal JAMA Paediatrics.
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