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Article: Consumer Challenge: Making Head or Tail of Fish and Mercury
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- October 23, 2007
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Should pregnant women eat fish?
That's a question Lean Plate Club members often ask, policymakers
continue to mull and scientists debate.
So when the nonprofit National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
Coalition recently advised pregnant women to eat at least 12 ounces
of fish per week -- in contrast to the 12-ounce upper limit
advised by the federal government -- it appeared to represent a
shift in thinking. The new recommendation led some to ask: Could the
benefits of the healthy omega-3 fatty acids in fish outweigh the
dangers of methyl mercury with which most fish are contaminated?
The new advice was written for the coalition by a group of 14
scientists known as the Maternal Nutrition ...