The behavior of children in a recent study vastly improved when they were given 6 capsules of fish oil per day, even more than children being prescribed Ritalin. Restlessness and school performance improved significantly from omega-3 supplementation and concentration improved by 33%! Even after 30 weeks of taking fish oil supplements, the children continued to show increasing improvements, suggesting that taking fish oil even longer would have had even greater benefits.
This is great news because fish oil does not have any of the negative side effects that Ritalin does, including insomnia, suicidal thoughts, personality changes and heart disease. Ritalin has even been cited as the cause of strokes and heart attacks that have killed several children. Hopefully this fish oil news will serve to reverse the ongoing medicated-children epidemic, as there are 330,000 new prescriptions for ADHD drugs every year!
Your body has a wonderful pharmacy inside of it and given the right tools it can, more often than not, heal itself. Given the terrible side effects associated with Ritalin I wonder if parents were truly informed about it if they would continue to chemically lobotomize their children. Ritalin is classified as an amphetamine, a Class II controlled substance putting it in the same category as cocaine. There are many natural alternatives to medication for ADD/ADHD and I beleive that all other avenues need to be exhausted before resorting to medication.
Check out the following links for more information.
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/chiro.htm
http://www.sitochiropractic.com/add.html
http://www.jvsr.com/abstracts/index.asp?id=304
http://www.beinghealthynaturally.com/childrenbabyhealth/addandadhdnaturalcare.htm
For more about this contact Dr. Dave at 910-395-5066
Russ Chiropractic and Wellness Center
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