September 2006 The Bond Effect Newsletter Vol 9.

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The Science of the feeding pattern that is right for the human species;
The Art of applying this knowledge in today’s world

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Q of Month (1): Upsets can have many Causes. Recipe Photo: Zucchini Dug -outs. New Book : Foretaste. Q of
Month (2) : Vitamin C – How Much ?. Quote: Orwell - Prescient about Processed. Recipe: Zucchini Dug-out. Q & A:
Vitamin C and Colds; Raw Foods and Seeds. Food Disease Links: Candida, Candidiasis. Good to Know: Vitamin C in
a Nutshell (1). New Book – What they Say: Rita Stec, M.D. Food/Disease Links: Magnesium Deficiency/ Diabetes.
Laughter the Best Medicine: Water into Wine. Events.

Questions of the Month (1) Recipe Photo Questions of the Month (2)
This question raises many funda- Zucchini Dug-Outs Vitamin C – How Much?
mental issues, relevant to all, and
which merit a lengthy answer.
Q. How much vitamin C do we need
for optimum health?
Upsets can have Many Causes
Q. I downloaded your book, but I A. The Paleolithic researcher, Boyd
Eaton estimates that the typical
am having difficulty with diarrhea
forager diet contained some 450
and headaches. I have lost about 3
7 lb eating this way but still have mg of vitamin C per day . The
53 lb to go. I have thrush which primatologist, Katherine Milton
4
gets worse if I eat sugar and agrees . We suspect that, if this
flour. I was borderline diabetic was the intake for the human
while pregnant. I suffer jaw muscle This zucchini dish looks like rustic species over all of its evolutionary
spasms (TMJ) which means I can native canoes piled high with their history, then the body came to
only eat food that is soft and in delicious, colorful cargos. depend on it. Furthermore, wh en
small pieces. It could be due to Recipe: page 2. we follow the Natural Eating
pattern, this too produces a similar
stress and teeth-grinding. I take
Human Heritage intake of vitamin C.
Prozac at night for PMTS.
Crunchiness Counts This is confirmed in other ways too.
I follow your program but with For example, contrary to the
We frequently laud the benefits of
lapses. I eat plenty of fruit alone, common wisdom, the body does
eating our fruits and vegetables
some cheese (can't give it up!), and indeed have vitamin C stores: these
raw: “When we eat an apple for
a legume crock-pot at least once a example it requires mastication and include the adrenal glands, pituitary
week. I have diarrhea problems but it takes time. As a result our brains gland, brain, eyes, ovaries, and
not if I add a serving of o atmeal or register the process at its true testes. These stores total some
whole wheat bread midmorning – value, gastric juices are mobilized 4,500 mg for a 150 lb person. What
but grains give me headaches. and we feel satiated more easily 1.” intake is needed to maintain them?
A. This is a real tangle of phenom- Now science adds another When the intake of vitamin C from
ena. Let us tease them apart to dimension. The brain and skull food rises, the concentration of
identify the individual threads. register the ultra-high-pitch sound vitamin C in the blood and other
emitted by the crunches2. organs rises in step. However, at a
You suffer from thrush (common
steady consumption of 400 mg to
name for candida) and it gets worse A trial using a taste panel found
500 mg per day, vitamin C
if you eat sugar and starch. This is that the higher the level of ultra-
concentrations in the body hit a
only to be expected: candida feeds sound noise given out by biting ceiling. This, the scientists say, is a
on sugar (starch is just another crunchy foods, the higher the "en- state of “saturation”. Cont: p. 4.
form of sugar). Headaches and di- joyment" rating.
arrhea are just two of the symp- Cont: page 4. Quote of the Month
toms of candida overgrowth. Prescient about Processed
New Book
You were “borderline diabetic” while “… the modern industrial technique
pregnant. You are now 53 lb over-
Foretaste which provides you with cheap sub-
weight. This tells us that you are You can sample the first few pages stitutes for everything. We may find
of Geoff's new book, Deadly in the long run that tinned food is a
almost certainly still diabetic.
Harvest, online at our website: deadlier weapon than the machine-
Continued: page 4 www.naturaleater.com gun.” -- George Orwell (“1984” au-
Print publication is scheduled fo r thor), The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937.
January 2007.

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September 2006
Recipe
Zucchini Dug-Outs
Can be served either hot or cold
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Yield: 2 - main dish, 4 - side dish.
−2 lb. zucchini, unpeeled, cut
lengthwise in 2 halves.
− salt to taste
− fresh ground pepper to taste.
− 1 teaspoon Italian herbs.
− 1 tablespoon (15 ml) olive oil.
− 1 white onion (approximately 5 oz,
145 g), chopped.
− 4 cloves garlic, crushed.
− 1 can (14 oz, 400 g) chopped to-
matoes, drained.
− 1 tablespoon tomato paste.
− pinch ground nutmeg.
− 1/2 teaspoon fructose.
− 4-6 drops (or to taste) Tabasco
sauce.
− 2 tablespoons pine nuts, crushed
− optional:
−1 tablespoon Swiss cheese,
grated. (Heart loser)
−1 tablespoon fresh parsley,
chopped.
1. Carefully scrape out the soft the cold slightly . Mostly it has no
pulp of the zucchini halves with effect at all. In
a small spoon, so they take on
the form of a dug-out canoe.
Take half of the pulp and chop
it very thinly. Set aside (dis-
pose of the other half).
2. Lightly salt and pepper the zuc-
chini halves, sprinkle with half
of the Italian herbs. Place on an
oiled baking sheet.
3. Bake in a preheated oven at
400°F (200°C) for 20 minutes.
4. Heat the oil in a medium-size
frying pan and sauté the onion,
until they are soft and translu-
cent. Stir in the garlic and half
of the zucchini pulp. Sauté all
together for about 10 minutes.
5. Now add the drained t omatoes,
tomato paste and the rest of
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the Italian herbs. Stir in t he salad dressing. I take one meal per
nutmeg, fructose, Tabasco, salt day of only raw seeds which in-
cludes sunflower, pumpkin, sesame
and pepper to taste. Adjust the and flax seeds with onion, garlic
seasonings, if desired. Sau té cloves(4-8) and fresh ginger. Any
shortly for 2 minutes all to- suggestions?
gether. Mix in the pine nuts. A. Your diet is surely much health-
ier than the average; in some re-
6. Distribute the mixture equally
spects it is more extreme than we
in the hollowed-out zucchini would advocate.
halves. Sprinkle with the Swiss
We see that you do not eat any
cheese (optional – not for the animal products – in other words
purist.). Bake in a preheated it’s a v egan diet. It is good that you
oven at 400°F (200°C) fo r 20 do not eat any of the harmful main-
minutes. Sprinkle with the pars- stays of many vegans’ diets –
starches and leg umes.
ley prior to serving (optional).
We do argue that the human organ-
Questions ism is naturally adapted to expect
the consumption of some animal
Vitamin C and Colds
matter – but of a particular and
Q. I heard that one can reduce the
duration of a cold if one boosts special fatty acid profile. In today’s
vitamin C intake at its onset. For world, free range eggs, seafood and
example, by quaffing extra orange most wild game are co nforming.
or blackcurrant juice. Is this correct Dairy products (which you do not
mention) are to be avoided.
or just ano ther 'Cold Myth' ?
However, it is perfectly possible for
A. As the adage goes: “A cold
normally lasts seven days -- but it you to stay on a vegan diet and
if you treat it, you can cure it in a here we suggest some adjustments
week!”. to make the best of it.
This is one of those sayings that - You do not mention nuts. We cer-
has a lot of truth in it. Some s tudies tainly recommend all kinds of tree
show that, for some people in some nuts: almond, cashew, walnut, bra-
zil and so on. Always fresh, raw and
situations, an i ncrease in vitamin C
intake can shorten the duration of unsalted.
5
- We are not wild about eating
fact, nothing else seeds as such. However, the pump-
helps either. kin seeds are rich in magnesium
Fame and fortune awaits the (see Magnesium Deficiency/ Diabe-
tes, page 3) and do not provide a
discoverer of a cure for the
digestive challenge. Sesame seed,
common cold.
in spite of being an omega-6 grain
However your diet, if you follow is acceptable (News: August 2005).
what we say, will have an
Flaxseed is really a nut and is a
abundance of vitamin C (see
great source of omega-3 oil. Sun-
“Vitamin C – How Much?”, page 1).
flower seed is loaded with omega-6
It would be pointless to force an
oil but it is not a grass seed and is
even greater consumption. We
also a good source of magnesium.
certainly do not recommend fruit
In small amounts it is OK.
juices anyway (see Food Polic y,
Newsletter March 2006). - Some plant oils are good for salad
dressing. Focus on the omega-3
Raw Food and Seeds sources: rapeseed oil, hempseed oil
This question raises many and flaxseed oil. (Almond oil is not
fundamental issues, relevant to all, one of them). Most walnut oil is
and which merit a lengthy answer.
made from nuts which have been
Q. I am following a raw food diet of
roasted, which defeats the object.
mainly vegetables plus fruits with If you can find oil from fresh wal-
no grains or cereals. I use the nuts, this is good too .
sprouts of flower and vegetable
seeds and sometimes wheat grass Omega-3 oils are fragile and oxidize
easily into toxic products so always
juices. I use 2 to 3 teaspoons per
day of walnut or almond oil as a
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make sure they are fresh and cold When you fight candida, you can us past the misinformation per-
pressed. give no hostage to fortune. Strictl y petuated by the dairy, beef, fast
- sprouted seeds are fine – but why follow the Savanna Model and you food, sugar and cereal industries,
bother? Just eat copious salads and give yourself every chance of rid- as well as our own federal gov-
you will get all the micronutrients ding yourself of this parasitical ernment.
your body expec ts. The same re- overgrowth.. “This book is a 'must read' for
mark goes for wheat-grass juice. anyone interested in decreasing
Good to Know
their risk of heart disease, stroke,
Food/Disease Links Vitamin C in a Nutshell (1) diabetes and cancer." -- Rita J.
To make space, the editor cut out
For over a hundred and fifty years, Stec, MD.
several passages from Geoff's new sailors have known to consume
book. Here is one of interest. lemons and limes to avoid the
Food Disease/Links
Candida, Candidiasis dreaded disease, scurvy. However, Magnesium Deficiency/Diabetes
Candida is a yeast-like fungus that it was not until the 1930's that the A deficiency in the diet of magne-
is present in everyone’s colon. It is Hungarian, Dr. Szent-Gyorgi iso- sium can increase the chances of
a harmful organism but, when the lated the compound that did the developing diabetes and heart di s-
bowel is functioning healthily, it is trick: ascorbic acid or vitamin C.
ease says a study begun on young
kept at bay by the “friendly” bacte- Nevertheless, he found that ascor- 8
adults in 1985 . 15 years later
ria. Candidiasis is the condition bic acid on its own was not as ef-
caused when the candida organism fective as consuming the same those with the highest magnesium
escapes from its original si te and amount in the plant form. Eventu- intake had 35% less risk of devel-
spreads throughout the body. ally Szent-Gyorgi discovered a vi- oping these diseases.
This happens when the fungus tamin C helper or “cofactor”. Magnesium deficiency is co nnected
sends out tendrils through the gut Since then, researchers find that to many afflictions including mi-
wall into the bloodstream. It can this “cofactor” is composed of a graine, (News: September 2004),
multitude of compounds: vitamin K, and cardiovascular problems (News
only do this when the colon is u n-
J factors (which help the blood January 2006). It can also be due
healthy and, in particular, when
carry oxygen); bioflavonoids; poly- to over-consuming calcium and al-
dietary errors have made its wall
phenols; catechins, enzymes, and cohol. We carried a long article on
“leaky”. Once in the bloodstream, tyrosinase (an enzyme that aids magnesium in our Newsletter
the fungus gorges on blood sugar. hemoglobin)6. August 2004.
The more sugar there is, the more Other researchers confirm that vi- The Natural Eater is unlikely to be
the fungus spreads. When it tamin C is much more active and at deficient: it is p resent in most of
reaches other parts of the body, it least 35% more bioavailable when the vegetables, especially Swiss
causes discharges from various consumed in its natural environ- chard, greens, spinach, and bro c-
mucus membranes, particularly the ment – that is, as a fruit, salad or
coli. All tree nuts are rich in magne-
mouth and vagina. It also c auses vegetable7.
sium, notably cashews, al monds,
gastrointestinal upsets, constipa- So supplements are not the an- Brazils and walnuts. Pumpkin seeds
tion, itching rectum, gas, cramps swer. No, stay with the fresh pro- are also a rich source.
and flu-like symptoms. duce – organic if possible…
But try not to get over-focused on
The main way to get rid of candida Next Month: Fruit juices; vita- these particular foods -- green
is to starve it to the point where min C’s body-life; Overdose. vegetables, fish and nuts all contain
your immune system takes back magnesium to a sufficient degree.
New Book – What They Say
control and finishes it off. So the Laughter the Best Medicine
Several specialists from various dis-
chief measures are:
ciplines have reviewed Geoff's new Water into Wine
The Low Glycemic Link: Keep book. This one is from Dr Rita Stec, A priest got stopped by a traffic cop
blood sugar levels low – eliminate Director, Women's Wellness, Ran- after swerving all over the road.
starches and sugars. In this con- cho Mirage, CA. After spotting an empty bottle on
nection, modern fruits contain too the passenger seat, the policeman
"I am deeply indebted to Geoff says: “Have you been drinking?”
much sugar of all kinds and must Bond for teaching me the correct
be eliminated until the condition is way to approach nutrition. His re- “Only water,” the priest replies.
under control. search and keen insights from “Are you sure?” says the cop, “I can
The Immune System Link: Do the anthropological perspective smell wine on your breath.”
everything to keep your immune show clearly the connection be- The priest looks down at the bottle:
system functioning at full capacity. tween how the human body is “Good Lord! He’s done it again!”
(Natural Eating book, chapter 8) genetically programmed and the
disease consequences of inap- Upcoming Private Events
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From Page 1 Next, you must try to do without brains interpret differently from or-
Prozac. To do that you need to re- dinary sounds such as speech. The
Questions of the Month (1) duce the PMTS symptoms. Follow pulses are so intense that if they
the PMTS advice in the July 2006 were sustained as a tone, they
Upsets can have Many Causes and August 2006 newsletters.
All these factors tell us that, in the would destroy our hearing. It is
past, you have overloaded yo ur Legumes are notorious for upset- highly probable that we are geneti-
body with sugars and starches. ting the guts. They are not human cally disposed to crispiness as a
From now on you have to be extra food, contain gut-harming antinu-
sign of freshness in food."
strict about blood sugar control. trients and we recommend dispens-
Prof Povey’s last speculation is si m-
ing with them.
You suffer from PMS for which you plistic, but it reinforces our view
take Prozac. Headaches and diar- It is unlikely that you are suffering that the whole process of munching
rhea are common side effects of micronutrient deficiencies if you are whole raw food is important for li v-
Prozac9. strictly on the program. Just ensure
ing naturally. You liquidize and
that magnesium-rich foods are part
You suffer from TMJ (tempero- of your diet. See Magnesium Defi- blend foods to your disadvantage.
mandibular joint disorder ) which is ciency/ Diabetes, page 3.
Question of the Month (2)
intense pain in the jaw and its mus-
cles. TMJ is often the result of mus- You will have to examine your life How Much Vitamin C?
cle spasms which in turn can be to see how you might alleviate the Any intake of vitamin C over this
caused by emotional stress. Head- stress. Your body will support it
amount is promptly removed by the
ache, even migraine, is a frequent best if you get plenty of hard physi- 10
consequence of TMJ. cal exercise, proper sleep, sensible kidneys and excreted in the urine .
amounts of sunlight and eat like we However this figure of 400 to 500
Magnesium deficiency can also pro- say.
mg per day is some five to si x
voke muscle spasms like TMJ. It
can also directly provoke headache. Finally the practical matter of chew- times HIGHER than the Govern-
(News: September 2004) ing your food. While you work to ment’s Recommended Daily Allow-
alleviate the TMJ, you will have to ances of 75 mg per day (women)
These, then seem to be the under- use blenders and mixers to reduce
and 90 mg per day (men)11.
lying issues: blood sugar control, your food to a consistency that you
(and its manifestation in candida can cope with. It is also FOUR TIMES higher than
and diabetes), PMS, stress and, the average American intake of
possibly, micronutrient deficiencies. In summary, your diarrhea and around 110 mg per day 12. It would
headaches can be due to any one of seem that most Americans (but not
First you must get rid of the can- a number of factors or some com-
Natural Eaters) are running a vita-
dida. Follow the dietary guidelin es bination of them. You need to work
min C deficit.
given in The Food Disease Connec- on correcting them all.
tion, page 3 In particular, stop eat- The body needs more vitamin C
ing your fruit for at least 8 weeks or We wish you well. with stress, alcohol, and smoking.
until you are clear of the candida Human Heritage Other depletion factors include fe-
for at least three weeks. The can- ver, surgery, wounds, viruses, anti-
dida diet will also bring your dia-
Crunchiness Counts biotics, sulfa drugs, cortisone, aspi-
betic condition under control. The panel found that apples pro-
rin, and environmental pollutants.
vided the most "enjoyment of bit-
That excess weight upsets you r ing", achieving a top score of 7.8 Good News: Natural Eaters’ vita-
body’s biochemistry making it al- on a scale of 0 to 10. min C intake is in the ideal range.
most impossible to regulate the Certainly don’t supplement!
Lead author, Professor Povey of
other matters that are going wrong.
Leeds University, UK said, “When
Fortunately, the anti -candida, anti-
diabetic measures should make you munch a crispy apple you cre-
weight loss an automatic process. ate pulses of ultrasound w hich our

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