Medication?

What are EFAs? Humans need more fat, but what they don't need are excess calories. There's a crucial distinction between structural fat and storage fat (blubber). Structural fat contains EFAs, and is a major component of cell membranes, internal organ, brain and nervous system tissues. Omega-3 and omega-6 are the two families of EFAs. For optimum health, we need a balance of both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids at a ratio of approximately 1:1.

EFAs in your diet Omega-3 fatty acids are found in flax, mustard and hemp seeds, walnuts and soybeans. In particular, they are abundant in fatty fish from cold water: salmon, herring, eel, sardines, mackerel, trout, and halibut. Omega-6 fatty acids are found in flax, pumpkin, hemp, sunflower, sesame, grape seeds, as well as walnuts, peanuts, soybeans, brazil nuts, pistachios, almonds, wheat germ, safflower and rice bran. Nut should be organically grown and raw (preferably soaked first to remove an enzyme inhibitor) and oils cold-pressed, unrefined, and protected from heat and light. Highest amounts of omega-6 oils are found in evening primrose, borage and black currant seed oils and spirulina.

The Niacin/EFA Connection Canada's grand old man of medicine, Dr. Abram Hoffer of BC, has published extensive evidence showing how and why he cured so many schizophrenics with niacin therapy in his 50-year medical career. Niacin helps preserve the EFAs and PUFAs which he further added to his patients' diets through meals high in fish and fresh vegetables and health oils. Today his books are among our most reliable guides for action: he explains for example, how all fried foods, especially deep fried stuff, kills the EFAs and PUFAs. Sugar does the same. In fact, all processed and refined foods are the enemies of the brain and the nervous system, the saboteurs of healthy development and the killer of out children's God-given creativity and mental health. If your child is on Ritalin and you want to follow the Hippocratic injunction ".first do not more harm", you will need to get instruction on how to take her off it slowly. Simultaneous provision with an EFA supplement has been shown to be protective against the negative effects of Ritalin. If your child has been diagnosed with one or more of these learning disabilities, researching the literature cited below will prove helpful. Hippocrates advised, "Above all, let food be your medicine." Today, medical science is finally beginning to get the message.

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Prescribing Ritalin is a very common occurance in this day and age, they are handed out all to easy. This is a very controversial issue; some swear by medication and

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