Can Fish Oil Help Youngster's Brains?
I was pumped up by the weather report I saw this morning, which predicted a couple of Florida-like days could be coming, later in the week. I'm going to go out and get some Coppertone and lay out on the back porch. (Just kidding... like George Carlin once said, I only get in the sun to neutralize the blue.)
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.
It's my belief that the situation here is very similar.
Puri is convinced that the British school children's diets are lacking in omega-3 fatty acids. He believes that supplementation is the only way to insure that the children get these vital fatty acids.
He also believes the same thing is true of adults.
Professor Puri has impressive credentials: he is a professor of Psychiatry at London's Imperial College as well as a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital with a specialty in neurological disorders.
Youngsters in the study were given pharmaceutical grade fish oil, and after 3 months remarkable gains were seen.
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.
In concentration, three children scored perfect results, even though they were not at the top of their class.
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.
According to Puri, "The results were astonishing. It was as if the brains of these children were three years older."
It's been my recommendation for years that adults take pharmaceutical grade fish oil, to improve brain function, and I am not really surprised that Puri's study showed the same could be true for children.
And now it looks as though the benefits for children may be as high, or higher, than for fully grown adults. This is really tremendously good news. However, until such findings are confirmed by other studies, I can't actually recommend this for kids.
There is another study I have not read yet which was also done in England which proposes that supplementing the diet of violent teenagers with fish oil helps tame their behavior. The supplementation is now being used in psychiatric treatment and has shown some promising results. - 17274
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.
It's my belief that the situation here is very similar.
Puri is convinced that the British school children's diets are lacking in omega-3 fatty acids. He believes that supplementation is the only way to insure that the children get these vital fatty acids.
He also believes the same thing is true of adults.
Professor Puri has impressive credentials: he is a professor of Psychiatry at London's Imperial College as well as a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital with a specialty in neurological disorders.
Youngsters in the study were given pharmaceutical grade fish oil, and after 3 months remarkable gains were seen.
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.
In concentration, three children scored perfect results, even though they were not at the top of their class.
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.
According to Puri, "The results were astonishing. It was as if the brains of these children were three years older."
It's been my recommendation for years that adults take pharmaceutical grade fish oil, to improve brain function, and I am not really surprised that Puri's study showed the same could be true for children.
And now it looks as though the benefits for children may be as high, or higher, than for fully grown adults. This is really tremendously good news. However, until such findings are confirmed by other studies, I can't actually recommend this for kids.
There is another study I have not read yet which was also done in England which proposes that supplementing the diet of violent teenagers with fish oil helps tame their behavior. The supplementation is now being used in psychiatric treatment and has shown some promising results. - 17274
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