Vitamin Trader - Healthy Discounts on Quality Vitamins

It should come as no surprise that our kid's need excellent nutrition in order to enjoy optimal brain function. Unfortunately, most parents don't properly satisfy the special nutritional needs of their children, not recognizing that their developing brains are very sensitive and highly demanding of a wide range of specific nutrients. However, research is increasingly recognizing that food allergies and intolerances, toxic influences as well as marginal nutritional deficiencies may all be playing a critical role in the phenomenal increase in childhood behavioral and learning disorders.

With the increasing "chemicalization," genetic modification and nutritional depletion of the modern diet, it has become more important than ever that parents find ways to break away from this unhealthy consumerism to ensure that their children have the nutrition they need to build a foundation for a successful future.

Many nutritionally oriented healthcare providers now universally recommend balanced essential fatty acid supplementation to all children with conditions like ADHD, learning disabilities and atopic (allergic) disorders. In research I conducted on 76 children with ADHD, over 80 percent were found to have deficiencies in the omega 3 fatty acid DHA (found in fish oils) and about 1 in 5 had deficiencies in the omega 6 fatty acid, GLA (found in evening primrose oil). Recent research from Oxford University has expanded upon this finding by demonstrating that kids with learning or behavioral problems respond positively to supplementation with a combination of tuna oil and evening primrose oils. I am predicting that fatty acid supplementation will soon be recognized as one of the most critical components in the treatment of childhood learning and behavioral problems.

It is an indisputable fact that kids' brains need high quality protein. It is also true that many kids skip breakfast or eat meals that are high in carbohydrates and low in protein. As well, many kids with learning or behavioral problems experience food allergies or other adverse reactions to common foods like dairy products and, therefore, finding a source of low allergy potential protein can be a challenge, especially for breakfast.