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New research suggests that eating excessive amounts of black licorice may have adverse consequences on the mental health and behavior of your unborn child.

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Eating a diet that includes a variety of seafood can be very good for your health. In fact, the American Heart Association recommends eating fish at least twice a week. Fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids can help prevent macular degeneration, cardiovascular disease, and a host of other illnesses.

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By now it is pretty much common knowledge that stress is bad for you in so many ways, but now researchers have new insight into just how detrimental stress can be to our fertility. The reason for this is because it causes the body to release special hormones, also known as glucocorticoids (including cortisol), that inhibit sexual reproduction.

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Doctors have discovered an effective way to help the mental development of premature babies by supplementing their diets with the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA. A major lipid in the brain, DHA is apparently not present in sufficient quantities in pre-term babies and as a result, predisposes them to an increased risk for impaired mental development.

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It turns out that women who have a vitamin B12 (folic acid) deficiency early in their pregnancy may have an increased risk of having children with disabling or even fatal neural tube defects, as determined by a study published in the journal Pediatrics. The neural tube is the part of the fetus that will develop into the brain and spinal cord.

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