Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, MA 02138, USA. jwozniak@... :
the conclusion of teh study was:
"As only 35% of these subjects had a response by the usual accepted
criteria of >50% decrease on the YMRS, omega-3 fatty acids treatment
was associated with a very modest improvement in manic symptoms in
children with BPD. "

let's just say that if the below-quoted article did not push a
specific brand (as in "for more information about ...") , i would be
less cynical.


At 11:59 21/08/2007, Nachum wrote:

>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.
>
>Information about OmegaBrite can be found at
><http://www.omegabrite.com>http://www.omegabrite.com
>
>NewsTarget has no financial relationship whatsoever with OmegaBrite
>(or any nutritional supplement company) and earns nothing from sales
>of this product.
>
>
>
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