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At 6:02 PM -0800 22/11/03, Neil Abrahams wrote:
>Thank you for the link. I learned from it that walnuts, although they
>have a lower 6:3 ratio than most nuts,
English Walnuts are listed in the USDA database as being 38% n-6 and
9% n-3. Black Walnuts have less n-3.
>still has almost six times the
>omega-6, per gram, as almonds.
and almonds are 12% n-6 which is 3 times, according to that dataset.
> It's that almonds lack omega-3 entirely
>that make the ratio bad.
Yup.
>I like almonds, and they are relatively
>inexpensive, there aren't in the same class as sugar, and I don't think
>the research they've sponsored is shoddy.
Almonds are also higher in salicylates than other nuts. I know
several people who get nasty adverse reactions to them. I read
somewhere once that a handful of almonds contains the active
ingredient from one Aspirin. (And no, I don't believe everything
I read.)
And any research published by "industry" has to be suspect. I mean,
they are hardly likely to commission a report on the adverse
reactions of eating almonds, are they?
...R.
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