I think the salient point she is making is "see if it is obvious"...

Like, whenever you add back dairy you get this big breakout on your face...

I guess try it several times under several atmostpheric circumstances?
I agree it is challenging, cause not all reactions are obvious.

Renee

Abby Eagle wrote:
> Hi Naomi,
>
> I think you missed my point.
>
> How do you eliminate the variables of weather and atmospheric pollution?
>
>
> Abby
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: FailsafeNT@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FailsafeNT@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Naomi Lorenzini
> Sent: Friday, 7 November 2008 12:04 PM
> To: FailsafeNT@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [FailsafeNT] how to remove all of the factors --- is food
> always the culprit?
>
> That's why they have the elimination diet, take it all out, put a little in
> and wait till you feel great for 5 days in a row or longer if your
> suspicious of circumstances, then test the groups, gluten, dairy, soy,
> salicylates, amines, and see if it's obvious you can't eat it. I didn't
> test soy cause I just figured we wouldn't eat much of it cause I knew it
> made the younger one grumpy and then a restaurant we normally let them eat
> tofu and sometimes had an amine and salicylate dessert and blamed the desert
> on our next days troubles but when we quit having the dessert and just the
> tofu, trouble and now no more soy but had I actually tested it then it would
> have been more clear.
>
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>
> The dates are really high in amines and salicylates.
>
>
>
> Naomi
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> From: FailsafeNT@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FailsafeNT@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Abby Eagle
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:01 PM
> To: FailsafeNT@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FailsafeNT] how to remove all of the factors --- is food always
> the culprit?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been keeping notes for a month or so now re diet and symptoms.
>
> Many times there have been symptoms, which in the past I might have
> associated with a type of food....
>
> But now I wonder...
>
> A few days ago the weather turned black and rainy for a few days.
> Very humid. I got sinus symptoms... and felt terrible. Like my neck and
> shoulders needed a good massage - spaced out - vision disturbance.
>
> And then I think the symptoms motivated me to eat californian dates. They
> tasted too sweet. I then got symptoms of 'craziness' like a drug addict...
> had to lay down and went 'unconscious' for an hour before dinner... used to
> happen sometimes after eating bread...
>
> The next morning still hot, wet and humid... felt terrible so put a radiator
> heater on ... sat close to it and did some yoga... then put the heater in my
> office... a couple of hours later the symptoms had lessened by 80%....
>
> So - if there are background factors such as weather, outgassing from
> plastics, pollution, stress, etc .... then it becomes challenging to pin
> point and accurately blame a food item, don't you think?
>
> The impossible challenge seems to be how to remove all of the factors from
> one's lifestyle... and then test for the negatives...
>
> Maybe I should move to a location that is hot and dry, and then retest the
> food groups?
>
> Abby Eagle
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