by: Diego Rondon
In the study released on Wednesday, the Danish researchers learned that women who took fish oil supplements during the final three months of pregnancy helped them reduce their offspring’s chances of developing asthma or persistent wheezing during the first five years of life.
“I would say that the finding that the effect was there was maybe not the surprise, because there have been indications,” says the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Hans Bisgaard, of the University of Copenhagen. “But the magnitude was very surprising to us.”
