At 21:44 1998-08-24 -0400, Ilya wrote:


>Having been on chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia lists/newsgroups for a while
> I have noticed the following:
>1. many who have one of these conditions have the other(s)
>2. the only thing that seems to help consistently is a restricted carb diet.

Accortding to an article in a swedish science magazin (Forskning och Framsteg)
fibromyalgia has to do with longtime stress, wich upsets the immune system.
I can imagine that if You remove grains and other things that disturbes
the immune system, it will cope with a little better with the results
of the longtime stress. (Stress here can be both physical and psychic.)

- Hans