Dr Alex Richardson of Oxford University conducted an experiment with children aged from six to 11. All these children had specific difficulties in motor coordination, over 30% had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD), and 40% had specific learning difficulties and were more than two years behind in reading and spelling. The experiment provided the children with supplements containing Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids and vitamin E. Compared with the expected progress for normal children, the recipients of the supplements improved their reading ability at more than three times the normal rate, and more than twice the rate in spelling, over three months of treatment. There were also significant improvements in their ADHD symptoms. Research in schools in the US, where a new regime of banning vending machines, providing nutritional education, better food and low dose vitamin-mineral tablets had improved both behavior and academic standards. In this experiment with five to 10 year olds, after one year, exclusions had fallen by 80%, violent acts were down by 97%, and the school’s test scores in math and English had shot up, taking it from being the lowest in the school district to first and second in math and English respectively. Check out: the Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project blog and Dr. Alex Richardson’s book They Are What You Feed Them.
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Food a Recipe for School Success
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