[R.B.]

Hi Andrea

Great to your positive posts. Thanks for the kind words. The book is not very well written, but the science in it is generally fine, and I am well received at specialist conferences on lipids on the strength of it. It raises important issues, is thought provoking, but is a bit disjointed and best read in small sections - it leaves lots of questions and that is because this is a developing area of science and much is still simply not known - if the book gets you to realise that excess Omega 6 (and not enough Omega 3) in our diet is an important issue it is a positive step - I stand by some of the more sweeping claims - excess Omega 6 will be seen in the future to be a very serious health issue - I have largely rewritten an expanded book, which is much fuller and more confidently written, and ties in other areas, but I need to find some serious time to finish it - the researchers that are doing all the fine work that made the book and rewrite possible are way ahead of their time.

One of the pieces of good news is that the US military are beginning to take the subject seriously, and they really do have the power to influence food production and composition.

Excess Omega 6 is strongly connected with the ability to reproduce and all of the processes that entails. Excess omega 6 is a factor in many western conditions, and particularly those that are inflammation related. I will try and find time over the weekend to add a list.

(For anyone who has read the biography at the back the issue is still ongoing, and it was disclosed at a recent Freedom of Information Tribunal seeking disclosure of a secret practice direction dealing with the closure of Royal wills that the document related to a secret illegitimate royal child; so the claim may not be as batty as it sounds.)