Higher Maternal Omega-3 Enhances Verbal IQ:

Children’s scores on this key developmental rose with the increasing maternal omega-3 intake. And, the children of the women who had consumed the smallest amounts of omega-3 fatty acids during their pregnancies had verbal IQs six points lower than average. This is a substantial difference for any individual, but it has even more serious implications for a country’s collective power.

Higher Omega-3 Intake Yields Better Fine-Motor Skills at Age 3 1/2:

The mothers of the children with the highest scores on fine-motor performance tests were the ones who reported the highest intake of omega-3s.

Low Pre-Natal Intake of Omega-3s Impairs Social Development:

The children of mothers who consumed the least omega-3s during pregnancy had a harder time making friends at age seven. This “frightening data” shows that the seven-year-olds whose mothers had the lowest intake of omega-3s during pregnancy had twice the risk of socialization problems (14% X 8%), compared with children of the highest-intake mothers. And socialization problems in childhood are the best predictor of anti-social behavior in adolescence and adulthood.