Study indicates children may not receive adequate dietary amounts of omega-3 EPA, DHA.

From AOA FirstLook:

UPI (3/6) reports that, according to researchers at Canada's University of Guelph, "78 percent of the children in a" Canadian study "did not receive adequate amounts of omega-3 EPA and DHA in their diets." The group "found that the median daily consumption of omega-3 EPA and DHA was 31.5 mg, in a sample group of children" ages four to eight, well below the "suggested daily intake recommended by the Institute of Medicine, which is 90 mg of omega-3 EPA/DHA per day." And, based on the "recommendation by the American Dietitian Association and the Dietitians of Canada" of "351 mg of EPA/DHA per day," the study concluded that "90 percent of the children were deficient in omega-3 EPA/DHA."