On Sep 04, 2004, at 11:35 pm, thetasig wrote:
> You're right to be suspicious.  Bunch of hooey.  Nothing but a galvanic
> measurement which tells nothing of nutrition or, for that matter,
> anything much else.
>
> -=mark=-
>

You're probably right Mark.  I only took the test to prove my mum wrong 
(she didn't believe I had a dairy intolerance and continued feeding me 
butter on my food to see how I would react) so all I was bothered about 
was a positive reaction to dairy.  (And I guilted her into paying for 
it afterwards.)  Although oddly enough, while it picked up all forms of 
milk, yoghurt came out with no reaction.

I don't know what the biological "theory" behind the test is.  Maybe 
it's just statistical thing, and the it throws up enough positive 
results that it hits on people's sensitivities quite often.  Also, the 
guy doing the test has seen a questionnaire beforehand so he knows what 
to give a positive reaction to if he wants to confirm your suspicions.  
Obviously, by eating paleo, I'd picked up most of my sensitivities by 
trial and error and told him what I was expecting.  Maybe I should have 
gone in and said how good milk is for my health and how lettuce makes 
me vomit uncontrollably.

I only went there because (a) my mum "recommended" it and (b) blood 
tests run into the hundreds of £s.  In a few years time when I've got 
the cash to burn, I'll have the blood tests done- and maybe have my 
mercury filling replaced too :)

Ashley