by Shane Starling
NutraIngredients.com
The omega-3 industry must devote more resources to lobbying and educating government, health care professionals and the general public to help plug a ‘policy gap’ that is contributing to a growing epidemic of cognitive disorders, a congress has been told.
The two-day omega-3 summit in Bruges, Belgium, had a scientific and sustainability focus but UK-based independent researcher, Dr Jack Winkler, from the Nutrition Policy Unit, noted in his presentation that the long-chain omega-3 message remained, “criminally under the radar” among global policy makers.
Dr Winkler echoed the calls of veteran omega-3 researcher, professor Michael Crawford, who 30 years ago predicted that humanity was in danger of becoming, “a race of morons” if long-chain DHA and EPA omega-3 dietary intakes were not increased, a prediction Crawford lamented was in danger of coming true as rates of depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders spiral in the western world.
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