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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.)

I am looking forward to being able to go outside, without putting on a warm coat, scarf, and gloves, just to go pick up the mail. And the snowblower is going back in storage.

Because I have been snowed in for most of the winter, I have done quite a bit of reading. I have gathered a lot of new data about fish oil, which is interesting to me, since I had done a very methodical study of fish oil when I was formulating my very own brand. But information keeps flowing in, that underscores my conviction that this company is moving in exactly the right direction.

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.

I happen to believe that the situation is much the same here in America.

In Professor Puri’s study, he states his belief that British school children have a deficiency of omega-3 fatty acids in their diet. He is convinced that their diets must be supplemented, in order to insure that they receive an adequate amount of these essential fatty acids.

He also believes the same thing is true of adults.

Puri is a professor of Psychiatry at Imperial College in London, and a consultant in neurological disorders at Hammersmith Hospital.

In Puri’s study on British schoolchildren, the youngsters began taking pharmaceutical grade fish oil, and within 3 months, significant improvements were shown.

There was an average increase in the school children’s reading age of one and a quarter years, and there was a increase in the neatness and legibility of the children’s handwriting.

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.