Can Fish Oil Help Youngster's Brains?
I flipped on the weather report today and was really excited to hear the prediction for a few very warm and sunny days, coming right up. I plan to buy some Coppertone and soak up the sun out in the back yard.
It will be so nice not have to gear up with a winter jacket, hat, gloves, and scarf, just to go get the mail. And I can definitely retire the snowblower for the year.
While being inside, due to the snow this winter, I got lots of reading done, and I've discovered quite a bit of new info about fish oil. This is interesting to me, because I had done such an exhaustive study of fish oil, while putting together my own fish oil formula. The existence of this new information is confirmation for me that I was on just the right track, when I put this company in business.
One study I read was done by a professor named Basant Puri, and it appeared in London's Daily Mail. Puri posits that today's school-age children need supplementation to their diet in order to be healthy. His study was done on schoolchildren in Britain, whom Puri is convinced do not eat a healthful diet.
I happen to believe that the situation is much the same here in America.
Professor Puri believes that the diets of school children are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids, and that the only way to insure that they get them is through supplementaion.
He also believes the same thing is true of adults.
Puri works at Imperial College in London as a professor of Psychiatry, and he also consults on neurological disorders at Hammersmith Hospital.
While participating in Puri's study, the British schoolchildren were given pharmaceutical grade fish oil, and remarkably, within 3 months, it was possible to see substantial gains.
The study showed an average increase in the reading age of the schoolchildren by one and a quarter years, and the youngsters' handwriting became more legible and much neater.
While measuring concentration, three children who were not at the top of their class previously were able to achieve a perfect score.
The children also showed marked improvement in their short-term memory.
When brain scans were done on the school children, the most striking finding emerged: all the scans suggested that the children had developed a larger density of nerve fibers.
Puri is quoted in the newspaper as saying, "The results of the brain scans were astounding. It was as if we were looking at scans of children who were three years older than the participants."
I have recommended for years now that adults take pharmaceutical grade fish oil to increase brain function, and I was not surprised that Puri's conclusions were similar for children.
So it seems that the benefits of supplementation with omega-3s may be just as high for children as they are for adults, or possibly even higher. But until I get more confirmation from further studies, I am going to hold off on recommending my formula for kids.
I am just about to read a followup study, also done in England, which indicates that teenagers who have violent tendencies can be helped by supplementing their diets with fish oil, which seems to temper their behavior. This technique is now being used in conjunction with psychiatric therapy and has shown some positive results. - 17268
It will be so nice not have to gear up with a winter jacket, hat, gloves, and scarf, just to go get the mail. And I can definitely retire the snowblower for the year.
While being inside, due to the snow this winter, I got lots of reading done, and I've discovered quite a bit of new info about fish oil. This is interesting to me, because I had done such an exhaustive study of fish oil, while putting together my own fish oil formula. The existence of this new information is confirmation for me that I was on just the right track, when I put this company in business.
One study I read was done by a professor named Basant Puri, and it appeared in London's Daily Mail. Puri posits that today's school-age children need supplementation to their diet in order to be healthy. His study was done on schoolchildren in Britain, whom Puri is convinced do not eat a healthful diet.
I happen to believe that the situation is much the same here in America.
Professor Puri believes that the diets of school children are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids, and that the only way to insure that they get them is through supplementaion.
He also believes the same thing is true of adults.
Puri works at Imperial College in London as a professor of Psychiatry, and he also consults on neurological disorders at Hammersmith Hospital.
While participating in Puri's study, the British schoolchildren were given pharmaceutical grade fish oil, and remarkably, within 3 months, it was possible to see substantial gains.
The study showed an average increase in the reading age of the schoolchildren by one and a quarter years, and the youngsters' handwriting became more legible and much neater.
While measuring concentration, three children who were not at the top of their class previously were able to achieve a perfect score.
The children also showed marked improvement in their short-term memory.
When brain scans were done on the school children, the most striking finding emerged: all the scans suggested that the children had developed a larger density of nerve fibers.
Puri is quoted in the newspaper as saying, "The results of the brain scans were astounding. It was as if we were looking at scans of children who were three years older than the participants."
I have recommended for years now that adults take pharmaceutical grade fish oil to increase brain function, and I was not surprised that Puri's conclusions were similar for children.
So it seems that the benefits of supplementation with omega-3s may be just as high for children as they are for adults, or possibly even higher. But until I get more confirmation from further studies, I am going to hold off on recommending my formula for kids.
I am just about to read a followup study, also done in England, which indicates that teenagers who have violent tendencies can be helped by supplementing their diets with fish oil, which seems to temper their behavior. This technique is now being used in conjunction with psychiatric therapy and has shown some positive results. - 17268
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