Women who eat little or no fish during early pregnancy are more likely to
give birth prematurely, according to a study in Denmark. A team led by
Sjúrður Fróði Olsen at the Statens Serum Institute in
Copenhagen asked almost 9000 pregnant women if they ate fish and how often. They
found that as fish consumption went up, low birth weight and premature birth
decreased (British Medical Journal, vol 324, p 447).
Just over 7 per cent of women who never ate fish had a premature delivery,
compared with 1.9 per cent of women who ate fish…
