Mooshie peas wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:17:31 +0200, Alf Christophersen
posted:

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:40:34 +0100, "Jim Webster"
wrote:

What about lamb and eating it at different times of year?

Lamb are mainly slaughtered at autumn over here, and thus hs rather
high omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, (or low omega-6 to omega-3 ratio)

At Iceland where sheep always, more or less, are range feed (grazing
in mountains all days during year), they have one of the lowest
mortality rates from CVD, even having genes common with Norwegians and
other Northern Scandinavians, which has amongst the highest incidents
of these diseases. (but also high intake of meat from farmed animals,
except sheep nd lambs in autumn because they are fed in mountain
during spring/summer/autumn season. Rheumatic people seldom complains
about pain after eating lamb in autumn, while eating spring
slaughtered animals give them pain and eating pork meat always give
pain.
(Pigs are mostly fed omega-6 rich diet)


Has all this conjecture (?) been subject to test with double blind
placebo controlled studies?

Who would it pay to do the studies?

I note peer-reviewed journals are going to start pointing out to readers
when authors fail to declare their research-funding sources. A lot of
biotech studies and reviewers have failed to note their funding
connections to biotech industry, against the agreed convention.

Studies on omega-6 - arachidonic acid - inflammation, if proved
positive, might benefit persons who were hoping to be paying less for
medical treatment. So it looks as if any researchers interested would have
to compete for funds of the type which are not
govt-money-in-partnership-with-business. The current approach is to
encourage partnership with business, so non-partnership research-money is
rather hard to get.

As I said to Jim the connection of omega-6 to arachidonic to inflammation
is a bit obvious, like rain to being wet. We don't do a study on it
because it is rather obvious when money is short? Or is it that business
has investment in the health system, too, and guides it away from such
studies, since it would remove a lot of profit?