 |
|
The LCP Solution: The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia
by B. Jacqueline Stordy, PhD, and Malcolm J. Nicholl, 339 pp, ISBN
0-345-43872-8, New York, NY, Ballantine Books, 2000.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:622-623.
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings. |
|
|
|
My grandmother, Delia McGillvary, who hailed from Prince Edward Island,
often admonished my brother and me as we dawdled over our plates of creamed
codfish, "Eat up, boys! Fish is brain food!" She dosed us with tablespoons
full of black, viscous cod liver oil whenever our parents weren't around.
Dr Stordy, a former senior lecturer in nutrition at the University of Surrey
in England, is similarly enthusiastic about the potential for long-chain polyunsaturated
fatty acids (LCPs) contained in marine fish oils to ameliorate (and possibly
prevent) attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, and dyspraxia.
The LCP Solution is an intriguing book intended
for the often-desperate parents of children with learning disorders. It is
worth knowing about, or at least visiting Dr Stordy's web site, because the
parents of patients with ADHD either already have or soon will. Three of the
last 5 ADHD families in my practice admitted to having already experimented
. . . [Full Text of this Article]
|
