August 17, 2007, 12:34 pm -
Filed under: News
Author: John Bostock

In England, The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have recently published draft
programme Guidance to improve the nutrition of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children in low-income households http://guidance.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=440481
This specifically recommend that health professionals “Encourage pregnant women to eat one portion of oily fish (for example, mackerel, sardines, pilchards, herring, trout or salmon) per week.”