An alarming research brought into prominence that potential mothers need to obtain fasting from fish for many years. That's due to avoiding passing on certain harmful chemicals to their offsprings. Fish and shellfish contain high-quality protein and omega-3 fatty acids that benefit children's health, yet they could as well pass on certain harmful chemicals like persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and methylmercury.    

Subsequent to one year of replacing fish with vegetables in her diet, a woman would reduce prenatal exposure of her kid to a POP called polychlorinated biphenyl-153 (PCB-153) by nine percent, a team of environmental scientists found. Five years of substituting vegetables for fish could reduce prenatal POP exposure by 37 percent, showed the discoveries.  The researchers explained that if the potential mother replaces fish with vegetables for 30 years prior to childbirth, she could reduce prenatal POP exposure of her kid even by 85 percent.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency in the US In people, POPs have been linked to reproductive, developmental, behavioural, neurologic, endocrine and immunologic adverse health effects. The study appeared in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.    

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