Paul Montgomery, a professor from the University of Birmingham, argues that omega-3 supplements do not affect children’s memory or learning abilities.
Omega fish oils don't improve children's reading skills or memory, study finds
By: University of Birmingham
MARCH 2, 2018
New research has found no evidence Omega-3 fish oil supplements help aid or improve the reading ability or memory function of underperforming school-children.
These findings are in contradiction to an earlier study run by the same team using the same supplement.
In the second high-quality trial of its kind, published in PLOS ONE, the researchers found an entirely different result to an earlier study carried out in 2012, where omega-3 supplements were found to have a beneficial effect on the reading ability and working memory of school children with learning needs such as ADHD.
In this second study, the researchers tested children who were in the bottom quarter of ability in reading, and found that fish oil supplements did not have any or very little effect on the children's reading ability or working memory and behaviours.
The team from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford tested 376 children aged 7-9 years old, learning to read, but in the bottom quarter in terms of their ability.
