Pregnant Women

In 2004 the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency recommended that pregnant women limit fish consumption to 12 ounces (roughly two average meals) per week, and that they eat varieties of fish and shellfish that are low in mercury. With that being said, in the last several years, pregnant women have been seriously limiting or avoiding fish in their diets.

Recently it has been discovered that the Omega-3 fats are necessary for the complete development of the human brain during pregnancy and the first two years of life.

- Concentrate on eating foods that provide optimal nutrition to you and your baby. Those foods would include fish, eggs, beef, poultry and combining legumes (bean family foods) and brown rice.

- Complex carbohydrates that provide Vitamin A, C and B complex are also very important. Those nutrients are found in fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Whole grains are in cereals and breads.