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Natural Eating: Eating in Harmony with our Genetic Heritage

September 2000 Nutritional Anthropology™ Volume 3.09

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Book Reviews: Dr James Melton; Virtue Label: Quorn Burgers; Q. of the Month: Racial Typing; Recipe: Bell
Pepper Provençale; Q&A: Rice Pudding, Gut Reaction, Insatiable Youth, Bubbles and Bones. Good News:
Heartfelt Cocoa; Updates: Fast Food Wheeze, G.M.O.’s, Homocysteine; Kiddy Corner: Book serial Part 4;
Conference Reports: Amersham, Annecy; Health Monitor: Body Fat Percentage; Upcoming Events: Book
Signing, Hospital Talk; Hints & Tips: Craving Control, Quality Eating Out; Resources.

Book Praise Virtue Label Question of the Month

The first reviews are going up on Not all processed foods are rubbish. Racial Typing
Amazon. This is another. This British product starts off on the
Q. When did the different human
right foot but it could be better.
races arise? Do they have different
At last, we finally have Comments: Page 5.
naturally adapted food patterns?
a manual for "Life."
The Bond Effect is an
outstanding combination of Quorn A. Up until about 50,000 years ago,
our ancestors shared a common
natural eating and healthy
thinking. How could something Burgers homeland. There were probably no
more than about 40,000 of them.
so simple go unnoticed for so MEAT FREE They shared a common gene pool
long? This book can literally and would have looked the same
change your life -- and the Ingredients ‘breed’.
Myco-protein* (48%),
beauty of it is, the methods
rehydrated egg white, onion The dispersal out of Africa took place
presented will begin to work flavorings, rehydrated textured rapidly. The world filled up. The large
instantly! Everyone can use these wheat protein, partially geographic distances meant that the
ideas to enhance their image -- hydrogenated vegetable oil, worldwide pool of genes coalesced
inside and out. milk protein, modified starch. into distinct regional groupings.
Dr. James Melton, *MUSHROOM IN ORIGIN AND NOT A Racial differences emerged.
Palm Springs, California GMO.
NOT SUITABLE FOR GLUTEN FREE
DIETS. However, in genetic terms, humans
If you have read the Book and liked have very little divergence even when
it, do us a favor! Write a review on Nutrition Information: measured across the widest
Amazon.com and on Amazon.co.uk. difference – that between Hottentots
Serving Size: One Burger
Amount per serving: and Australian Aborigines. Gorillas in
the same rain forest have greater
Sorcerer’s Apprentice Calories: 56.0
genetic diversity!
Total Fat: 2.3g
Two faced Vitamin C Sat fat: 1.5g
Vitamin C is an antioxidant – but Beware too, of facile but erroneous
Sodium: 400mg
only at moderate doses. Over about assumptions. Genetically, the
Total Carb. 2.7g
500mg it becomes a ‘pro’-oxidant. Japanese are closer to Europeans
Fiber: 1.8g
That is it begins to have similar than they are to the Chinese!
Sugars: 0.8g
damaging effects as free radicals.
Protein: 6.2g
Source: Podmore; Nature; 392,559; 1998 Continuation: page 5
Comment: Just because something
is good, doesn’t mean that even Now turn to page 5.
more is better. Eat Naturally and the
doses work out just fine.
September 2000 The Bond Effect Newsletter page 2 of 6

Recipe of the Month This dish is quite high in oil (one the amylose content (it needs to be
Nicole’s Pocket Cookbook is now tablespoon per person) and for this at least 30%) on the packet.
available (details on back page). reason only it loses a heart. We therefore return to our
Here we publish a recipe, extracted Natural Eating precepts and ask with
from the book that makes a delicious Reader’s Questions some asperity why you insist on
starter to any meal. eating a cereal at all! But if you do
Rice Pudding so insist, then try substituting rice by
Bell Pepper Provençale truly low G.I. cereals – whole barley
serves 4 Q. I have heard that ‘sticky’ rice as grains and whole rye grains.




eaten in Asia, has a lower Glycemic
Ingredients: Index. Is it therefore a safer form of Gut Reaction
rice to eat? Q. What is the best way for the guts
• 4 medium red bell peppers (=1
per person) A. At one time it was thought that to recover from antibiotics?
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed sticky rice was in some way A. The basic message is very simple
protective and that this explained the - follow the Natural Eating rules as
• 4 tablesp. (60ml) olive oil relative absence of obesity and strictly as possible! The danger
• salt (moderate) diabetes in Asian countries. arises if 'bad' florae get established
• pepper before the 'good' ones. They can be
During the last 15 years that G.I.
has been researched, it has remarkably persistent and difficult to
Method: gradually been found that it is a replace.
Wash the bell peppers. Bake in a much more complex phenomenon Check out the Fridge Door
preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) than first thought. In particular, the Summary on page 162 of the Natural
for approx. 30-35 minutes, turning reasons for a high or low G.I. can be Eating Book. Do that and you will
manifold. favor the cultivation of good florae.
them once.
Their skin should be wrinkled. It has only recently been Your doctor might recommend
Put the bell peppers in a plastic bag discovered that sticky rice, just like some acidophilus or similar
other categories of rice, has a wide capsules. No one knows if these are
and seal hermetically. Let them
range of glycemic index depending really worth taking. Is the favoring of
cool off in the bag. on the variety of rice plant. It took a just one culture out of the several
Alternatively: Holding the bell while to find out why this should be hundred present in a healthy gut a
pepper in tongs, sear it over a so. It was finally identified, only quite problem in itself? Probably.
flame until the skin blisters, recently, that the G.I. of rice depends
loosens and chars slightly. chiefly on its amylose content. Certainly don't fall for the
Amylose is a type of starch that propaganda of live yogurt. There is
Their skin can now easily be ‘gels’ when moistened (as happens never an overriding reason to
removed. in boiling). Most varieties of rice are consume yogurt. And anyway, the
Cut in half to take off the seeds. low in amylose and are rated ‘bad’ acidophilus bacteria rarely survive
Remove the stalks and ribs. carbohydrates. High amylose rice the digestive process. (Capsules on
Cut in strips of 1 inch (2.5 cm). has a lower G.I. and is ‘medium’ or the other hand, are designed to
‘borderline’. release their contents in the colon.)
In a serving dish lay out the bell
peppers. Some Asian ‘sticky’ rices are high A baby is born without bacteria in
Sprinkle with the garlic and salt amylose in content (and that is part its gut, but within 24 hours, it has a
of their stickiness) but many are not. full complement of flora. Nobody
and pepper to taste. knows how.
Quite simply, Asians used to live
Sprinkle the oil all over the bell only on the proverbial bowl of rice
peppers. per day. This was not enough to Eat strictly according to the
trigger adverse glycemic reactions. Natural Eating precepts and let
Keep the dish in the fridge until 10
nature take its course.
minutes prior to serving. With increasing prosperity diseases
Best made 2- 3 hours in advance, such as obesity and diabetes are Insatiable Youth
or even the day before. afflicting the Chinese peasant just as Q. I have adolescent children and
surely as they have arrived in force they need “filling up”. How is this
Comment: To make the dish more to American couch potatoes. done?
colorful, instead of 4 red bell
So the short answer is that you A. This is a commonly asked
peppers, you can use 3 red and 1 cannot know whether you have a question. It shows how much
yellow or orange bell pepper (green medium G.I. rice or not. Not until, progress we have to make in our
bell peppers are less tasty). that is, the food manufacturers state
September 2000 The Bond Effect Newsletter page 3
thinking, in our expectations and in time in the history of the human • are anti-thrombogenic. They
our habits. race, immediately, and with no effort, reduce blood clots.
hunger can be satisfied. Humans are
The temptation is to ‘fill them up’ creatures that are not ‘designed’ for In addition, the main fat in chocolate
with potatoes, pasta, bread, pop- this. We know that it is hard for a is stearic acid. Although saturated it
corn, pizza, hotdogs, whatever. loving parent to accept this – but you exerts a neutral effect on blood
These are all low quality fillers that will be doing your child’s health a cholesterol.
are highly deficient in micronutrients. favor by keeping them slightly hungry
Source: 22nd Congress of the European
Worse, they are upsetting to the for several periods of the day! th
Society of Cardiology; Aug 28 2000
body’s biochemistry. You might as
well feed your children sawdust! Bubbles and Bones Comment:
What responsible parent would We’ve always been a supporter of
knowingly do that?
Q. In an earlier newsletter you
explained how “carbonated the sensible use of cocoa. Just be
careful what it is mixed with!
So, fundamentally, adolescents beverages” promote osteoporosis.
Manufacturers have the annoying
have to ‘Natural Eat’ just like Does this go for mineral water too?
habit of adulterating cocoa with milk,
everybody else – just more of it.
A. Strictly, a ‘carbonated beverage’ sugar and other junk ingredients to
The challenge of course is to wean is a drink that has non-water make ‘chocolate’ products.
them off their current pattern and ingredients plus carbon dioxide
Just stick to the 70% min cocoa
into this one. So in the following bubbles. It is the “non-water
chocolate and the ‘safe’ desert
recommendations brace yourself for ingredients” that cause the problem,
recipes in our cookbooks.
a shock. It is an IDEAL – remember: not the water or the carbon dioxide.
“any movement in the right direction
is beneficial”. So to answer your question – Updates
mineral waters are just fine.
Upgrade your notions about the Fast Food Wheeze
quantities to serve. The fruit ration Preview of Future Q&A Junk food and ready-made packaged
for the day is at least 3lb. That works meals may be causing the alarming
out to, say, three apples plus two Q. Apples: To peel or not to peel? rise in the world's childhood asthma
pears plus one orange plus 1 Q. Omega 6 as bad as sat. fat? rates.
nectarine plus ½ punnet strawberries Q. Vegetables: cooked or raw?
pus ½ bunch of grapes. Scottish researchers found children
Q. Beans and Gas
who have diets low in vegetables,
Q. Fish: wild or farmed?
The salad ration for the day should vitamins and minerals are three
Q. Bison: A ‘good’ red meat?
be at least 2lb. That works out to, times more likely to suffer from
say, one lettuce, plus three tomatoes wheezing, infections and other
plus ½ English cucumber plus one Preview of Future Topics asthmatic symptoms.
dozen radishes plus ½ punnet of • Potato toxins.
mushrooms, a couple of green • Food/Cellulite connection Children who eat less processed
(spring) onions and a stick of celery. • Food/ PMS connection food, fewer frozen packaged meals
• Omega 3 and bone health and more locally grown fresh veget-
The vegetable ration for the day • Forgotten wild plants ables are far less likely to be
should be at least a 1-½ lb. That • Iron + Vitamin C gives cancer asthmatic.
could be, say, a stir-fry consisting of • Legume anti-nutrients
a handful each of broccoli, bell The number of young British
pepper strips, cauliflower florets, asthmatic children has doubled in
Good News less than a decade. One in seven
chopped onion, sugar snap peas and
chopped bok choy. Heart felt Cocoa children suffers from asthma. In
New research suggests that 1997, it killed 1,500 people.
All this without mentioning the daily cocoa polyphenols help cardio-
quotas of eggs, fish, raw nuts, fowl The study, led by Prof Anthony
vascular health. Polyphenols: Seaton, was done in Saudi Arabia
and vegetable proteins. (With
growing children one can afford to • relax blood vessels (vasodilation). where modern and traditional
step up the proportion of these Blood vessel function is an communities live side by side.
foodstuffs.) important factor in the The researchers found a large
development of heart disease. difference in the diet between
It would indeed be surprising to find
any adolescent that is not ‘filled up’ • act like antioxidants. Antioxidants children from the fast moving
by such a daily menu. prevent damage to body cells. "westernized" capital, Jeddah, and
Especially, they reduce “bad” LDL those in several rural villages.
Finally, a subversive aside: question
oxidation. After taking family history and
the notion that slight hunger has to
be immediately satiated. For the first allergic tendencies into consideration
September 2000 The Bond Effect Newsletter page 4
they found eating at fast-food outlets ‘reduces’ this baddy in the How do you avoid your baby getting
is a significant risk factor for bloodstream. fat? Just the same way as adults
wheezing. avoid it. It is a theme that runs right
Source: Prof. Anthony Seaton, Dept of
Kiddy Corner though this book. Eating naturally
eliminates the risk of getting
Env. and Occup. Medicine, Aberdeen
University. Aug 22 2000. We receive many queries from overweight. For a summary of the
mothers anxious to know how to guidelines refer to the segment
Comment: Asthma has many feed their children. Here we serialize “Overweight/Obesity” in Chapter
triggers but a diet that is the relevant segment of the new Eight of the Book.
impoverished in micronutrients is a Natural Eating Book.
totally avoidable one. That completes the serialization of
Part Four the chapter on feeding children.
G.M.O.’s This is not the time to introduce him
Seven environmental and consumer to pizzas, hamburgers, and take- Conference Reports
groups launched a campaign in mid- away chicken or hot-dogs. Even less
July. Their aim: to force Campbell is it the time to introduce your child Amersham
Soup Co. (the world’s largest soup to candies, cookies, ice cream and On September 5th, Geoff Bond gave
maker) to stop using gene-spliced confectionery! If you can get him a talk to some 100 members of the
ingredients in its soups, breads, through this phase without ever Chiltern U3A (University of the 3rd
juices and other products. having tasted them, then you are Age) in Amersham, England.
well on the way to insulating him
The pressure of consumer protests from addiction later on. Better for It was a very good audience that
in Europe got a graphic illustration him and the whole family not to have showed intelligent interest and was
on Aug. 3. The Swiss firm Novartis them in the house at all. excited to know more. The chairman,
AG announced it would refrain from Ivan Hirsch, declared the event a
using GMO materials to manufacture Lifelong habit number four: great success. Word quickly got
its food products. These include make your home a junk food- round and other U3A groups are
Gerber baby foods and “health” food free zone seeking to book Geoff for the 2001
cereal bars. season.
At a later stage, he will learn to
The irony? Novartis is also one of exercise self-discipline and, like a Annecy
the world's largest producers of socially responsible drinker, be able The next day Geoff Bond traveled via
genetically modified seeds. to consume just enough for the Geneva to Annecy (France) to give a
pleasure without compromising talk (in French) open to the public on
Diet Zaps Homocysteine health. Your baby is not old enough September 9th.
Homocysteine? This is the new kid to know about postponing self-
on the block – and not one to gratification, so you have to provide The regional newspaper, “Le
welcome. This is another baddy, a the discipline for him. Daupiné Libéré” carried an excellent
protein, which circulates in the interview publicizing the upcoming
bloodstream strongly provoking The hard part is with friends and conference.
heart disease. It can be picked up relatives. They want to give ‘treats’.
readily in a routine blood test. Worse, ingratiate themselves with The French audience was intrigued
the child. They don’t understand, and and pleased by the Natural Eating
But it can be reduced – guess how? don’t even cooperate with your message. The animated Q&A
By eating a diet that is high in stance. When they ask, “ mind if I Session after the talk was only
vegetation and low in saturated and give him a candy?” You respond, ended by the closing concierge.
total fat. with a perfectly straight face, “I
Source: Appel et al; Circulation; 2000; would rather you gave him a tot of Health Monitor
102:852-857 gin!”
Jack Sprat
Comment: Yes, the Natural Eating It is being realized that many adult
pattern will do very nicely thank you! health problems are laid down in The Body Mass Index (B.M.I.) is a
these formative years. Perhaps the venerable index of whether a person
Once again the researchers are most significant is obesity. If your has a healthy weight for his height.
looking through the mirror from the baby is allowed to get overweight, However, it is only a rule of thumb. It
other side. Homocysteine levels are then the chances are, that he will be cannot distinguish fat from lean.
high in the population simply overweight or even obese, for the
because of the prevalence of dietary rest of his life. Worse, if your baby is It misjudges the Schwartzeneggars
errors. overweight he is already laying down of this world who pack a lot of
plaque in his arteries, storing up a muscle into their height. It also
It is not surprising that returning to misjudges people who have very
mid-life heart attack.
our naturally adapted eating pattern little muscle but a lot of fat.
September 2000 The Bond Effect Newsletter page 5
A better index is that of Body Fat by the celebrated thinker, William Caucasians. In the long run ‘bad’
Percentage. Now, instruments have Edelen. It will be published in the carbohydrates and dairy products
been developed that can measure Desert Sun during October. are unhealthy for EVERYONE on the
this cheaply and quickly. They are planet.
present in any self-respecting clinic Hints & Tips
and health club. Virtue Label
New research puts forward these Controlling Cravings
figures for a combination of healthy Be aware that cravings pass. The
BMI and healthy Body Fat urge to eat is like a wave. It grows
Quorn
Percentage: gradually before peaking and
subsiding. Visualize yourself as a
surfer, riding the wave until it
Burgers
diminishes.
Women Myco-protein? This British product is
Quality Eating Out remarkable for using a mushroom
Age BMI 18.5-24.9 A recent study showed that the protein as its base material. This is
average restaurant diner was more much preferable to soy protein for all
20-39 21% to 32% interested in the size of the portions the reasons evoked in the May 2000
than in the quality of the foodstuff. newsletter.
40-59 23% to 33%
Reverse this reflex: seek out Egg white (albeit rehydrated) is
60-79 24% to 35% restaurants that put quality before another acceptable protein.
quantity. They will serve vegetables. Further down the list (and
They will be lightly steamed. There therefore less grave), Quorn begin to
Men will be an absence of highly flavored blot their copybook.
sauces to cover up poor quality
Age BMI 18.5-24.9 ingredients. Salads will be fresh. • wheat protein (gluten). This is
Few low-grade components such as allergenic and it forces them to
20- 8% to 19% potato, rice and bread. So it goes on print the gluten warning.
39 – you know what you have to do!
• partially hydrogenated vegetable
40- 11% to 21% From Page One oil – that most heart stopping
59 saturated fat of all;
Racial Typing (cont.) • milk protein – casein, the
60- 13% to 24% The reality is that all humans cholesterol raising protein;
79 worldwide share the same basic
biochemistry and the same digestive • modified starch – a bad
How does this fit in with our ideal carbohydrate.
requirements.
evolutionary-adapted body fat? Quite
well, although a little on the high It is just the same for dogs. The Somewhere in there too is salt. The
side. Our foraging forebears had apparent differences between such Nutrition Facts declare a whopping
body fat percentages that were disparate-looking dogs as the 1200mg (400mg sodium) per burger.
closer to the lower end of the range. Chihuahua and the Great Dane are Where it comes from is not revealed.
not reflected in differences in their
Upcoming Events In spite of these caveats, the overall
feeding patterns. They are all dogs
picture is of a foodstuff that can be a
and they thrive on dog-food.
Book Signing: Sunday, October useful addition to the shopping list.
29th at 12:00 noon. For humans the only racial
We don’t know of an analogue
differences in feeding patterns are
Geoff Bond will be at Barnes and more to do with what dietary errors myco-protein product in the U.S.A.
Noble, Highway 111, Palm Desert. although no doubt one exists. Let us
are tolerated.
know and we’ll publish it for the
Natural Eating Talk: Wednesday, For example, people of benefit of all our American readers.
November 8th at 10:30 am. Scandinavian descent tolerate dairy
Availability: Sainsbury’s.
products better than most other
Geoff Bond at Desert Hospital, Palm humans. People of Caucasian Contact:: Quorn Freepost SEA 4093,
Springs.
descent tolerate ‘bad’ carbohydrates Croydon CR2 6UZ, UK. Freephone: 0800
better than most races. 174 966.
Desert Sun Book Review
Our Palm Springs Valley readers However this is not an argument for
should look out for the Book review constructing a different feeding
pattern for Scandinavians and
September 2000 The Bond Effect Newsletter page 6

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