March 2009 12th Year of Publication Vol 12.

03
The Bond Effect The Bond Effect The Bond Effect
The Science and Art of Living the Way Nature Intended
The Bond Briefing
Private Subscription Monthly Newsletter – Annually: Hard Copy $59.00 - Electronic $18.00
www.TheBondEffect.com
Rational, evidence-based comment for an intelligent general public and for all health
professionals. Independent of commercial pressure, we say exactly what we think.
Thoughts from the Savanna: Female Safety. Resources: Book – A woman’s Home Health Companion. Sunshine is Human Food:
Deficiency – Diabetes, Dementia. Spreading the Word: USA Tour Report. Intellectual Integrity: Evidence Collides with Faith. Health
Professional’s Corner: Aspartame Wars part II. Letters: Deadly Harvest Compendium – Diane Lewis. Book Review part I: A
Woman’s Home Health Compendium by Rita Stec MD. Spreading the Word: Amazon – Call for Deadly Harvest Reviews. Our
Evolutionary Heritage: Make of Your Gut a Herb Garden – Part II. News Shorts: Cholesterol Levels Mean Little. Future Planning.

Thoughts from the Savanna Resources Spreading the Word

Our evolutionary history designed A Woman’s Home Health USA Tour Report
us for life on the savanna... Companion by Rita Stec, M.D. The book-signing at the stand
Female Safety Obtainable from Amazon and
www.AWomansHomeHealthCompanion.com of my publisher, Square One, at
Female chimpanzees mate with the Natural Products Expo,
any male around. Males have Anaheim was one of the
no role in child-rearing. It does highlights of the tour.
not matter, reproductively
speaking, who does what to
whom, sexually.
In contrast, an alpha-male
gorilla goes ballistic if another
male sniffs around his females.
Powerful hormones trigger
feelings of insane jealousy. He
flies into a terrible rage and
mangles the intruder. The queue stretched around the
In a state of nature, the human block and I dedicated some 100
species is closer to the gorilla. books.
Mothers need a man to protect The rest of the Expo depressed
their children. Men need to be me rather. Most of the “Natural
sure about paternity, otherwise Ever since Dr Rita Stec Products” are highly-priced
they won’t make the invest- interviewed me on her TV show manufactured and denatured
ment. So, instinctively, they (see video clip) some 6 years magic potions, vitamins,
have a visceral horror of being ago, we have worked together minerals, extracts etc.
duped – of unwittingly raising to bring our ideas to the I felt like shouting at the
another man’s genes. general public. crowds of trusting hopefuls:
But, cuckoo-like, there is an Now Dr Stec has written a “Just go to your local market
advantage for the rapist who useful little book for women, and buy the fruits, salads etc.
can cause another man to do which encapsulates her major in their natural state and a
the work for him. That is why health maintenance advice as tenth the price!”
husbands have evolved to be seen from the doctor’s Chia Seed
such jealous guardians of their viewpoint. However, one product caught
wives’ sexuality.
I have posted a book review on our eye: chia seed flour. It
In our formative past, the Amazon and you can read Part I contains 25% soluble gum fiber
fertile women (some fifteen of on p. 2. and 34% oil, two-thirds of
them) evolved to go foraging which is omega-3 fatty acid.
together. They stayed together Sunshine is Human Food
Deficiency: Diabetes, Dementia Chia seed contains no gluten
not because they were worried
and the flour can replace wheat
about snakes and lions – oh no! Sunshine deficiency is found in
flour for baked goods including
Their greatest danger was from 75% of diabetic youths [End-
breads, cakes and biscuits. We
marauding ravishers from an note 1]. Sunshine deficient
intend to try it out and report in
out-group – a nearby band. seniors are 50% more likely to
a future newsletter. Cont: p 4
Cont: p.3 suffer dementia [Endnote 2]
Published by Natural Eating Co Ltd, 55, Grivas Digeni, Suite 73, 8220 Chlorakas, Paphos, Cyprus. © 2009 Geoff Bond
March 2009 The Bond Briefing Page 2 of 4
Recipe physicians. At least two medical scientific scrutiny, then you can
No space for a doctors, to my knowledge, have be sure that the class-action
recipe this been inspired to write books lawyers in the USA would have
month but you based on my principles. long ago sued Searle (the
can savor My work is credible in the maker) and enriched both
nearly 100 scientific community, because I themselves and their allegedly
recipes in base it on evidence, not faith: it Aspartame-diseased clients.
Nicole’s new is not a question of my “firmly It is always possible that one
cookbook believing” anything. individual in a million might
Healthy Of course, my proposals are a have some paradoxical
Harvest. Info. counsel of perfection. The reaction. But then life is full of
average healthy person can get trade-offs, something that
Intellectual Integrity
away with minor compromises. doctors (and politicians) are
Evidence Collides with Faith reluctant to admit.
But compromise, where
An Israeli publisher approached Does Aspartame have draw-
me recently with a view to consumption is concerned, is a
rare commodity in affluent backs? Certainly: for example it
publishing Deadly Harvest in slows down bone building -- but
Hebrew. However, he first societies – and our societies are
self-destructing on their own no more than does sugar itself.
wanted my reaction to one of
food supply. And that is the trade-off that I
his reviewers who had made
On a point of detail, I am not make: In the grand scheme of
the following comment:
against tree nuts: on the things, sugar substitutes are
"I think his recommendation to the lesser of two evils by a
avoid ALL grains, legumes, and contrary, they are good human
food and an important country mile.
almost all nuts/seeds is
DANGEROUS in the long run. constituent of a healthy diet. As Letters
for seeds, only the grass seeds
He FIRMLY BELIEVES in the Deadly Harvest Compendium
[grains] are a problem. “
SAVANNA Hypothesis, which has “Women are searching; men
been completely DISPROVED! His The Israeli publisher is still are stubborn. I was writing a
entire model is based on the considering his options… book but it will now never be
Savanna. So this is WRONG Hebrew speakers looking for a written – yours has everything
ANTHROPOLOGY!" healthier life should hope for a in it!
My reaction? With its courageous decision.
“Your book lit an explosion
exclamation marks, capital Health Professional’s Corner under me. It is the Webster’s
letters, and frenzied Dictionary – there is no other
condemnation, this has all the
Aspartame Wars Part II
Last Month, I addressed the place to go!
hallmarks of an urban myth-
maker in a state of denial. (See rumor mill churning out “It’s well spelled out – now we
“Aspartame Wars”, this page). hysterical urban myths about know what we need to know
My reply might help readers Aspartame. Now for the hard and it’s available to everyone!
who have to deal with such die- rigor of scientific evidence: Diane Lewis, California
hard, reactionary views. When I search the scientific
Book Review
GB Reply: “It is often difficult literature for evidence of
aspartame toxicity I find none. A Women’s Home Health
for people to accept that
foodstuffs – ones that have On the contrary, I find article Companion by Rita Stec, M.D.
after article studying aspartame Obtainable from Amazon and
formed an honored part of their www.AWomansHomeHealthCompanion.com
cultural heritage for thousands to exhaustion without finding
any adverse effects. [See Freethinking Doctor Brings
of years – are not human food -
Endnotes 3 for a sample]. Unique Insights to Managing
- and can actually cause harm.
Women’s Health.
“To paraphrase Schopenhauer: The prestigious British Medical
Journal and The Lancet, Part I. Some of us can still
‘All truth passes through three
amongst others, can find no remember the days when the
stages: first, it is ridiculed;
evidence to denigrate doctor actually came to the sick
second, it is fiercely opposed;
aspartame. [Endnotes: 4, 5]. person’s house. Moreover he
third, it is accepted as self-
had few remedies in his bag.
evident!’ Finally, even if you have your
doubts about the FDA, such Instead he took charge of the
“Here in America we are
skeptics as the European Union sick room: ordained that the
between stages two and three.
find that aspartame is safe. patient get fresh air, that
I am currently on my fourth
[Endnote 6] sunlight be let in, that fires be
annual tour, where hospitals
lit to dry out the damp bedding,
employ me to give in-service If there were indeed any
lectures for the benefit of their evidence that would stand up to
Always consult your doctor before undertaking any health program
March 2009 The Bond Briefing Page 3 of 4
that a certain feeding regimen Our Evolutionary Heritage News Shorts
be followed. Cholesterol Levels Mean Little
Make of Your Gut a Herb
In other words, his high priority Some 75% of patients
Garden – Part II
was to assist the body to hospitalized for heart attacks
The Battle of the Bugs
mobilize its own powers of self- had cholesterol levels within the
These intestinal microbes live,
repair. guidelines. So finds Dr Gregg
for better or for worse, on the
Dr Rita Stec is a doctor in this food residues we send down. Farrow at the David Geffen
honorable tradition. She firmly Send down the wrong residues school of Medicine, UCLA.
eschews the role assigned by and the bad bugs take over; [Endnote 8]. Dr Farrow
much of modern medicine – send down the right residues concludes that the guidelines
that of being a pill-dispensing and the friendly ones thrive. need to be tightened up.
automaton. Pills have their I don’t agree: an alternative
Why does that matter? Over the
place of course, but only if conclusion is this: that the level
millions of years, our bodies
needed after the patient has of cholesterol is no guide to the
have come to depend on the
adopted a healthy lifestyle. risk of heart disease!
benefits that the friendly bugs
What is a healthy lifestyle? Dr bring us. For example, without Many studies have shown that
Stec draws her inspiration from them our immune systems cholesterol-lowering drugs have
the way of life that our don’t develop properly and we no effect. [see Endnotes 9, 10
evolutionary history designed will be deficient in essential and July 2005, April 2002].
for us. In other words, the nutrients such as vitamin K. Indeed there is much myth,
human species is naturally Furthermore, good bacteria humbug and deception
adapted to a particular lifestyle. fiercely defend their citadel (our surrounding the role of chole-
The mismatch with the way we colons) from the bad bugs that sterol – much of it happily
live today is at the root of most are forever battering at the abetted by makers of
of the big diseases (e.g. gates. cholesterol-lowering drugs.
obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart Over 100 TRILLION bacteria High cholesterol levels are
disease, osteoporosis, dementia inhabit a healthy gut. We now undoubtedly an indication of
etc.) as well as many ailments know that the balance of power bad lifestyle. But that is all they
(e.g. PMS, allergies, migraines between the species is critical. are – an indication. They do not
etc). But what have we got today? cause anything!
So the right nourishment, the Bad bugs have invaded and
infested the colons of people on I do my best to set the record
right amounts of sunshine, the
the classic western diet. Right straight in “The Role of
right kind of sleep and the right
in the heart of our bodies we Cholesterol”, Deadly Harvest,
type of physical activity are all
are harboring a vicious, evil- Chapter 9, Page 239.
factors in living in a way that
our bodies (and minds) doing enemy. Continued From Page 1
recognize. What does it take to drive out
Thoughts from the Savanna
On these matters, Dr Stec the hostile forces and welcome
generously acknowledges the in the good guys? I’ll come on Female Safety (cont)
debt she owes to my own work to that later, but first let us look Every such woman also had
Deadly Harvest… at some of the latest backup – her man. He would
discoveries about the benefits deal out terrible revenge on
Next Month: Part II
that a properly functioning bio- anyone molesting her.
See my complete review on mass brings us.
Amazon, and on our site. The upshot was, in this balance
Infection Fighting of power, women were safe
Spreading the Word Dr. Gerard Eberl, at the Institut from violation.
Amazon: Call for Deadly Harvest Pasteur, France, shows that
Today we have unwittingly
Reviews good bacteria communicate
upset this equilibrium. Women
with the immune system to
If you believe in our message expect to be able to walk the
generate lymphoid tissue
please help us to get the streets on their own; women do
[Endnote: 7]. This tissue
message out! Either post a not expect to need a male
produces antibodies which are
new review of Deadly Harvest protector. Moreover, our laws
vital agents in fighting bad
on Amazon or click the “yes” forbid men from carrying out
bacteria and infection. Without
box on an existing review to fearful retribution.
them the bad bacteria and
say it was helpful. Direct Link infections get a foothold. Today, the vast majority of men
See everything I’ve ever Next Month: Inflammation and behave themselves. Neverthe-
reviewed on Amazon (2 pages): less, in a small percentage, the
Auto-Immune Diseases
Reviews. temptation of a free lunch over-

Always consult your doctor before undertaking any health program

March 2009 The Bond Briefing Page 4 of 4
whelms social conditioning. We attended, particularly by my
hear every day of serial rapists established fans.
being caught only after I gave a number of talks to
molesting hundreds of women. hospital doctors as part of their
I have no answers to this in-service updating. Most of
example of modern society them found my perspective on
malfunction – except to observe the lifestyle-disease connection
that the female victims were helpful.
not in a group with fifteen other Of course the aim is to help I need not have worried about
women; they did not have a physicians in the treatment of adverse reactions from the
male protector. their patients. But just like a children or their families: the
general audience, they quickly grade teachers report only
Spreading the Word
related my insights to their enthusiastic discussion.
USA Tour Report (cont) personal circumstances: Finally I must thank some of
Unbelievably, few of the sales- the many people who helped
“You’ve taken away the peanut
people in Anaheim looked as us: Kathy Wade whose
butter sandwiches – so what
though they benefited from hospitality in her Rancho Mirage
can I put in my kids’ lunchbox!”
their own products… home was an important factor
“If you don’t consume milk, in making our trip possible; and
where do you get your evergreen Edith Morrey (97)
calcium?” and Diane Lewis, for their
I have responded to these enthusiastic promotion of our
questions and many like them cause.
both in these Briefings and in
Listen to Geoff
Deadly Harvest.
At the other end of the Radio Interview with Rosie
spectrum, together with Dr Future planning
Stec, I gave classes to some
We are working with Heather Bird,
third-grade classes.
one of Europe's leading health and
I was deliberately provocative: beauty visionaries and founder of
in one instance I showed the www.heatherbird.com/ with a view
picture of a woman suckling a to speaking at her anti-ageing
My talk at the Oaks Spa, Ojai cow’s udders. conference in London, Sept. 2009.
had its largest and most The dates of the USA Tour 2010
enthusiastic audience of the “Ooh gross!”, they cried, and have already been set for Feb 10th
season. Mizell S.C. in Palm agreed that this was an to March 16th.
Springs is in an old stamping abnormal thing to be doing.
ground of mine. It was well
SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER!
DOWNLOADABLE BOOKS and other VITAL INFORMATION: www.TheBondEffect.com
email: [email protected]; Cancer Support Site: www.BeatCancerNaturally.com
Tel: +357 99 45 24 68; Skype: gvlbond; fax: +1-801-659-7358

1 J Pediatr. 2009 Jan;154(1):132-4. NTP report on the toxicology studies of 7 Nature. 2008 Nov 27;456(7221):507-
Significant vitamin D deficiency in aspartame (CAS No. 22839-47-0) in 10. Epub 2008 Nov 5. Lymphoid tissue
youth with type 1 diabetes genetically modified (FVB Tg.AC genesis induced by commensals
mellitus.Svoren BM hemizygous) and B6.129- through NOD1 regulates intestinal
2 J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2009 Feb 4. Cdkn2atm1Rdp (N2) deficient mice and homeostasis. Bouskra D et al.
Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D carcinogenicity studies of aspartame in 8 Am Heart J. 2009 Jan;157(1):111-
Concentration and Cognitive genetically modified [B6.129- 117.e2. Epub 2008 Oct 22. Lipid levels
Impairment.Llewellyn DJ Trp53tm1Brd (N5) haploinsufficient] in patients hospitalized with coronary
3 mice (feed studies). Bucher JR. artery disease: an analysis of 136,905
Regul Toxicol Pharmacol. 2002 Apr;35(2
Pt 2):S1-93. Aspartame: review of 4 BMJ 2004;329:755-756 (2 October); hospitalizations in Get With The
safety. Butchko HH et al. Editorial; Aspartame and its effects on Guidelines. A, Fonarow GC.
JAMA. 1985 Jul 19;254(3):400-2. health 9 Ravnskov U. The Cholesterol Myths.
Aspartame. Review of safety issues. http://www.aspartame.net/rumors/Aspar New Trends Publishing, Washington DC
Council on Scientific Affairs. [No tame_and_health.asp 2000
authors listed] 5 The Lancet, Volume 354, Issue 9172, 10 Bradford R H, et al, Expanded clinical
Crit Rev Toxicol. 2007;37(8):629-727. Page 78, 3 July 1999; Aspartame and evaluation of lovastatin (EXCEL) study
Aspartame: a safety evaluation based the inter net; Anthony Zehetner, Mark results. Arch Intern Med 1991; 151:
on current use levels, regulations, and McLean. 43-49.
toxicological and epidemiological http://www.aspartame.net/rumors/Asp
studies. Magnuson BA et al. artame_and_the_Internet.asp
Natl Toxicol Program Genet Modif Model 6 www.efsa.europa.eu
Rep. 2005 Oct;(1):1-222. Links

Always consult your doctor before undertaking any health program