New study finds benefits from fish oil

Fish oil supplements given to pregnant women can boost the hand-eye co-ordination of their babies when they become toddlers, according to a study by academics from the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia. They based their findings, published in the latest issue of the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood (Fetal and Neonatal edition), on 98 pregnant women, who were given either 4g of fish oil supplements or 4g of olive oil supplements daily from 20 weeks of pregnancy until the birth of their babies.