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FAB Research

Professor Michael Crawford on the Key Role played by nutrition in the Mental Health Crisis

26/07/2023 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  8 Comments

NB.  This webinar has been rescheduled for Thursday 17th August. In 1972 the then Dr Michael Crawford published evidence that the brain required arachidonic (ARA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) specifically, for its growth, structure and function. ARA derives from Omega 6 fatty …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Food, Food/Health Policy, NutritionTag: arachidonic (ARA), cost of mental health crisis, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), FAB Research, FAB Research webinars, financial cost of mental health problems, imbalance in consumption of omega 3 to omega 6 fatty acids, mental health costs more than cancer and heart disease together, Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio, Professor ichael Crawford and mental health, Professor Michael Crawford, Professor Michael Crawford and Omega 3

Yet more bad news about sugar

04/09/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  6 Comments

The excellent monthly FAB Research newsletter has devoted its August issue to the evils of sugar - especially the evils of fructose. Fructose is to be found, often in the guise of high fructose corn syrup, in the majority of processed foods and virtually all fizzy drinks. …

Category: Behavioural conditions / autism, Nutrition, SugarTag: 'the bitter truth about sugar', FAB Research, FAB Research evils of sugar, FABResearch, sugar and aging, sugar and cancer

Could a diet heavier in oily fish help migraine sufferers?

23/07/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

New research published in the BMJ this month and reported in the Guardian  and by FAB Research suggests that raising intakes of Omega 3 fatty acids by eating more oily fish and using Omega 3-high oils or 'butter's reduced both the frequency and length of people's headaches …

Category: Conventional Medicine, NutritionTag: FAB Research, migraine, Migraine and oily fish, Migraine and Omega3/6 ratio, Western diet and the omega 3/6 ration

FAB Research – blindness in pre term babies

08/03/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

I have long been an admirer of the work of Dr Alex Richardson and her FAB Research (Food and Behaviour Research) team. Following in the footsteps of Dr Michael Crawford who, in the early 1970s, first highlighted the importance of dietary fats in the development of the brain, …

Category: Behavioural conditions / autism, Eyesight / loss of sight, Mental Health, NutritionTag: Blindness in very premature babies, Dr Alex Richardson, Dr Michael Crawford, FAB Research, Food adn Behaviour Research, Halved risk for severe retinal disease in extremely premature infants

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