Eat fish while pregnant, experts recommend.

Pregnant and breast-feeding women should eat at least 340gm of fish and other seafood a week because the benefits for infant brain development outweigh any worries about mercury contamination, a group of US experts said.

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Study Finds Almost One-Third of Children Take Vitamins (Newswise) Almost one-third of U.S. children take some form of dietary supplement, most often multivitamins and multiminerals, according to a study conducted in part by researchers at RTI International and the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. [News Source]

S. Korea blocks U.S. beef over mad cow concern. South Korea temporarily blocked U.S. beef imports as a precaution against mad cow disease after inspectors found a piece of banned bone in a recent shipment, a news report said Friday. [News Source]

Global obesity: it’s not a small world after all. Although Americans have become accustomed to health experts railing about the nation's obesity epidemic, the problem is not confined to American shores. [News Source]

Fats, meat unlikely to impact prostate cancer risk. New data from a large ethnically diverse group of men provides no evidence that eating a lot of fats and meat substantially affects a man's risk of developing prostate cancer. [News Source]

S.B. County kids to be tracked in ‘unparalleled’ health study. A landmark health study will focus on 105,000 children across the country -- including 1,000 in San Bernardino County -- keeping track of what they eat, drink, touch and breathe from birth until age 21. [News Source]

UW to join ambitious national birth-to-adulthood health study. The University of Washington will be a hub for a first-of-its kind U.S. study tracking children's health from womb to adulthood. [News Source]

Landmark health study will track metro kids. Michigan researchers and young people will be part of the largest and most ambitious national study ever undertaken on children's health. [News Source]

Wanted: 1,000 children. One thousand Schuylkill County families can be a part of American history. Schuylkill County is one of 26 randomly chosen U.S. counties in the first wave of a $2.7 billion study of the environmental influences of 100,000 children from before birth until age 21. [News Source]

UTHSC’s $33.7 million grant will bring National Children’s Study to San Antonio. One thousand San Antonio children would be followed from the womb — and in some cases, from conception — to their 21st birthday as part of the biggest and most ambitious study ever to look at children’s health and well being. [News Source]

Organic vegetables find place on urban tables. Elderly Mary Wambui has been a struggling vegetable farmer in Juja until a year ago when she learnt how to triple income from her one acre plot by going organic. [News Source]

SLU will track children from cradle to adulthood in large nationwide study. A landmark study on the health of the nation's children will include thousands of area kids. Nationwide the project will follow 100,000 children from 105 communities across the country from conception to age 21. [News Source]