What a mother does during pregnancy has an eerily strong effect on her children, researchers are finding more and more. It’s not just about cigarettes and alcohol, it’s about the kinds of foods a woman eats and the medications she takes. Now, a new study from Spain finds that when pregnanct women eat a few servings of fish per week, their children are more likely to have higher scores on cognitive function and fewer autism-spectrum traits. And it doesn’t appear to take too many servings of fish per week to have this effect.
