IF YOU want brainy children, eat the occasional oily fish when you’re
pregnant. That’s the message to would-be mums from a British follow-up study of
435 pregnant mothers and their children.
Cathy Williams, Kate Northstone and their colleagues at the University of
Bristol discovered the value of oily fish such as sardines and mackerel through
the “Children of the 90s” study of thousands of mothers in the Bristol area. The
investigators asked 435 women to keep a detailed diary of what they ate during
pregnancy.
Three years later, they tested how well the children recognised depth in 3D
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