At 10:41 PM -0500 8/10/03, Adrienne Smith wrote:

>Olive oil
>and macadamia nut oil are the only oils I can make salad dressing with.
>All others are far too high in Omega 6.

Olive oil is actually very poor in this regard... it's up to
10% omega 6 with no omega 3 to speak of.

Some other oils that have a good n-3:n-6 ratio are:
Flax seed oil 3:2
Canola Oil 1:2 (which I wouldn't recommend!)
Mustard Oil 1:3

These all have a better ratio than Macadamia oil (which is 1:6).

And of course you could try to find walnut oil... which should have
a ratio of about 1:5 (at least that's what walnuts are ;)


>I took this test about 2
>years ago and got very different results than the latest test despite
>eating a similar diet.  I'm still thinking I got ripped off or perhaps the
>fact that one's cells react to something on a given day does not
>necessarily mean that symptoms will be manifested.

Yeah, I know a few people who had that test and it turned out to
be completely wrong. All food allergy tests are quite unreliable.
Here's a page that discusses them:
http://www.nutramed.com/Foodallergy/diagnosis.htm

Perhaps the Texas Lowcarb Elimination Diet is the most accurate way of
testing foods. It's terribly tedious though, and if you try to test a
lot of foods "cabin fever" can skew the results. Here's an old post of
mine with a link to the "diet".
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0105&L=paleofood&P=R12267

 ...R.