Study reveals fish-rich diets are causing toxic levels of mercury in women of childbearing age

Dangerous levels of mercury have been found in women of reproductive age across the world, the largest study of its kind has found.

Excessive levels the neurotoxic metal can seriously harm unborn children and have been blamed on fish-rich diets. 

In some parts of the word gold mining and industrial pollution are also to blame, according to experts in Sweden.

Rod Stewart's wife Penny Lancaster has previously revealed she cut fish out of her diet after two years of failed attempts to conceive her second child with her rocker husband. 

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