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01/17/2013
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Butcher in Rio: meats are a type of food that contains choline, a substance associated with a reduction in the risk of schizophrenia in babies
ANGELO ANTONIO: ANGELO ANTONIO DU / THE GLOBE AGENCY
COLORADO, USA - Choline, an essential nutrient similar to vitamin B reduces the risk of developing schizophrenia in children when administered as a dietary supplement in the last two trimesters of pregnancy and in early childhood. The substance is found in foods such as liver, meat, fish, nuts and eggs. The study breaks new ground both in its conclusions as potentially therapeutic in its strategy to achieve the markers of schizophrenia long before the disease appears. Choline is also studied in relation to the potential benefits of liver disease, including hepatitis and cirrhosis, depression, memory loss, Alzheimer's disease and dementia certain types of convulsions.
Robert Freedman, Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado and an author of the study suggests that genes associated with schizophrenia are common, so prevention must be applied to the entire population. Now a lack of long-term monitoring to see if the method is effective to decrease the risk for later development of the disease as well.
Half of healthy pregnant women in this study took 3600 milligrams of phosphatidylcholine every morning and 2,700 milligrams each night, the other half took placebo. After delivery, the children received 100 milligrams of phosphatidylcholine per day or placebo. Eighty-six percent of children exposed to choline supplementation pre and postnatal care, compared to 43% of children not exposed, had better responses to a clinical test done on the baby during sleep.
Source: The Globe - Online
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