> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adrienne Smith
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: dietary antigens and food allergy tests - need help
> 
> 
> In a message dated 8/17/2008 7:38:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> 
> if humans are not yet adapted to grains, why does this not show up in
> at
> least some sensitivity when an allergy panel is done?
> 
> I would question the validity of most if not all allergy tests.
> Richard
> Mackarness MD wrote much on this subject.  So many people suffer
> needlessly only
> to be told by allergists that they are not allergic or not sensitive to
> things
> when in fact they are.  

Thanks for mentioning Mackarness. I looked him up again and I knew he
advocated a low-carb, high-meat diet, but didn't realize that he mentioned
"Stone Age diet" in his book way back in 1958 until I read this:
http://www.lowcarb.ca/atkins-diet-and-low-carb-plans/stone-age-diet-mackarne
ss.html. However, Mackarness, like Atkins, allowed unlimited dairy. 

This site
http://www.lowcarb.ca/atkins-diet-and-low-carb-plans/stone-age-diet-mackarne
ss.html says the following about Eat Fat and Grow Slim: "In the 1975
edition, this includes a historical analysis of diets from Harvey-Banting to
Robert Atkins and Herman Taller, and features the work of Blake Donaldson,
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Alfred Pennington, who all promoted an Inuit-style
meat-only diet. Mackarness extols the virtues of Pemmican, discusses food
allergies, examines carbohydrate addiction and touches on related
psychology."