Omega-3 highly effective in treating children with ADD

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have reported that
omega-3 fatty acid is highly effective in treating children with ADD,
ADHD and bipolar disorder. The study was reported in the journal
European Neuropsychopharmacology in February 2007.

"Results from this prospective, open study of monotherapy with omega-
3 fatty acids in the over-the-counter product OmegaBrite suggest that
manic symptoms can be rapidly reduced in youths with BPD with a safe
and well-tolerated nutritional supplement," wrote lead researcher Dr.
Janet Wozniak.

The high-EPA supplement of Omega-3 fatty acids, called OmegaBrite,
was tested for effectiveness and safety on 20 boys and girls with
bipolar disorder, ages 6 to 17 years old, over an eight-week period.
Half of the participants experienced a rapid 30 percent reduction in
symptoms with no side effects.

"What this study shows is that every child with ADD, bipolar or any
other mood disorder should be on OmegaBrite," said Dr. John Ratey,
author of the best-selling Driven to Distraction and a well-respected
expert on ADD. "And the only side effect is a longer life."

"This is great news for parents," said Dr. Carol Locke, who served on
the Harvard Medical School faculty for 14 years before creating
OmegaBrite. "Parents are always struggling with how best to help
their children. It is incredibly gratifying to develop a product that
offers a safe mood stabilizer and natural anti-depressant."

The study demonstrated that supplements reduced the participating
children's Young Mania Rating Scale scores (YMRS) -- the standard
rating scale for children with bipolar disorder -- by 30 percent. The
same research team conducted a similar study with risperidone or
olanzapine, the two most commonly prescribed drugs for the disorder.
The pharmaceuticals treated the children's disorders but led to side
effects including diabetes.

Other commonly prescribed drugs such as lithium, divalproex and
carbamazepine are only minimally effective or fraught with adverse
effects, the researchers noted.

"EPA and DHA are essential fatty acids that the body cannot make so
we must obtain them in our diet, which is very hard to do, or by
supplements," said Locke. "An imbalance of omega-6 and omega-3 can
result in an overall inflammatory response and related disorders such
as depression, cardiac disease, cancer, dementia, asthma and
rheumatoid arthritis."

Locke concluded, "Over the next five years, we will see Omega-3 fatty
acids become a foundation of health."

ADHD is a fictitious disease invented by the pharmaceutical industry
to sell amphetamine drugs to children. The conventional medical
industry doesn't want to talk about nutritional cures for diseases or
disorders because they know that if consumers were made aware of how
simply and inexpensively these conditions could be resolved with
nutrition, sales of pharmaceuticals would plummet. Symptoms of ADHD
are easily eliminated in 80 percent of children within two weeks by
merely supplementing with omega-3 oils and eliminating processed
foods (especially refined sugars) from kids' diets.

The psychiatric industry does not promote nutrition as a method for
preventing or treating depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD or other
mental or behavioral conditions. Instead, it works to keep consumers
ignorant of such solutions and pretends that these diseases are
caused by "brain chemistry imbalances" that can only be corrected
with synthetic patented chemicals (pharmaceuticals). Essentially,
modern psychiatry believes that all such disorders are caused by a
pharmaceutical deficiency. This belief conveniently serves the profit
motives of the drug companies which now virtually run modern
psychiatry.

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