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Did You Know?: Fizzy Drinks are Moreish; Deadly Harvest Review. Recipe: Hot & Sour Chicken Soup. Q&A: Is Washing Necessary;
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Question of the Month Back to Our Heritage Folly of the Month

Psychology of Change Return to Safe Watermelons Chinese Fall to Milk Lobby

Q. I am a dietician and have “I have a dream to provide every
obese patients who claim that Chinese, especially children,
they don’t eat much. They sufficient milk each day.” –
complete a consumption diary Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao.
and indeed I find that their Our View? One of the glories of
intake is low in calories. the traditional Chinese diet is the
I don’t understand why they absence of dairy. It is helps give
remain so heavy. They have the Chinese exceptional
spent their lives on diets and I longevity and health expectancy.
wonder if their bodies are in (See Deadly Harvest p. 87).
some kind of famine response - Unbelievably the Chinese are
or are they are telling fibs? pursuing their objective in the
A. “Economical with the truth” teeth of the knowledge that most
more like. Many studies have Chinese are grossed out by dairy
demonstrated that food – and are lactose intolerant.
In Deadly Harvest we relate how
questionnaires and diaries are the watermelon, a native of our Did you Know?
notoriously unreliable and African homeland, is the only
patients (especially obese ones) foodstuff that would be familiar Fizzy Drinks are Moreish
systematically underreport or to our ancient ancestors. In drinking contests it is easier to
falsify their reporting. Dr John However, they would be sink beers than plain water.
Blundell of the Dept of Psycho- astonished at the sweetness of Cynics say that the reason is
biology, Leeds University says obvious: beer tastes better! And
ours; the original African variety
that often they do not even know in an unexpected way they are
is not sweet, but hard and bitter.
they are doing it: the conscious right. Recent research shows
brain will be quite unaware of In Deadly Harvest, we give the that we have taste receptors
the deception practised by the watermelon an “amber” warning tuned in to detect carbon dioxide
subconscious. (Refs 1, 2). Its due to its high sugar content. in our food. Any carbonated
most obvious manifestation is Watermelon growers are worried drink, including sparkling water,
the condition of “being in denial”. that dieters and diabetics are triggers our quaffing reflex.
rejecting the watermelon.
When such patients live under
Deadly Harvest Review
controlled conditions, for In reaction to this consumer
example in a hospital metabolic pressure, researchers have Thanks to reader Peter Harris for
developed two types of reduced his excellent Amazon Review under
ward, they lose weight just like
sugar watermelon (Ref. 3). the pseudonym of Slartibardfast (a
anyone else.
character from Douglas Adams’
As Dr Blundell notes, the The lowest sugar one (top Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).
problem is really psychological. I picture) still has a good content
would argue that the true Deadly Harvest
of the valuable micronutrient,
problem is deeper: our modern Geoff Bond
lycopene (red color). The bottom
lifestyle puts our brains under picture watermelons have ISBN: 978-0-7570-0142-0
pressures they were not slightly more of both sugar and Check: www.TheBondEffect.com
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Recipe 4. Spray a frying pan with the make a protective layer called
olive oil and sauté the onion until “the acid mantle”. This is very
Hot & Sour Chicken Soup golden brown. Mix in the bamboo effective in keeping the skin





shoots and sauté for a few moisturized and in killing off
Yield: 6 Servings minutes. bacterial and fungal infections.
Broth: 5. Meanwhile soak the Soap strips away this protective
8 cups (2000 ml) water mushrooms in boiling water for layer and, being alkaline,
4-6 fresh coriander roots 5 minutes. Drain and set aside. encourages funguses and
1 small onion (about 2 ounces), bacteria to flourish on the skin.
6. Add the bean sprouts,
cut in half
tomatoes and bell pepper to the Ironically, then, washing is likely
3 garlic cloves, cut in half
frying pan and sauté all together to increase the prevalence of
2 inches peeled fresh ginger, cut
for 10 minutes, or until the sores and other skin problems.
in half
vegetables are done. The same remark applies to
3 bay leaves
1 teaspoon dried lemon grass (or 7. Add the drained mushrooms shampoos and scalp health (see
2-inches fresh stalk, chopped) and season with the chili sauce “Sensitive Scalp”, June 2007).
1/2 teaspoon black pepper corns and the rice vinegar.
What about hygiene? There is no
2 chicken breasts (about 1 8. Beat the eggs with a fork and doubt that washing does also
pound) drizzle the liquid very slowly into remove harmful bacteria like e-
Chunky Ingredients the soup, stirring all the while, coli and salmonella, and
Olive oil spray which creates the filament effect. parasites like fleas and lice.
2 small onions (about 7 ounces), 9. Ladle the soup into individual Infestation is mostly a
chopped bowls and garnish with the consequence of living in our
1 can (about 5 ounces drained chopped green onions. crowded modern societies.
weight) bamboo shoots,
drained und cut in pieces You can savor some 90 other Foragers rarely met a stranger
1 cup (about 1 ounce) dried recipes in Nicole’s new cookbook (who might carry unfamiliar
Shitake mushrooms Healthy Harvest downloadable germs); they lived widely
1 ½ cups (about 6 ounces) from the shopping cart on dispersed, so bugs found it
canned soy bean sprouts, harder to hop from one to person
www.TheBondEffect.com.
drained to the next. Today we cram up
2 medium tomatoes (about 12 promiscuously with strangers in
Questions packed subway cars!
ounces), seeded and chopped
1 big red bell pepper (about 7 Is Washing Necessary? So soap does make a huge
ounces), chopped Q. I read a report about a lady contribution to making it possible
3 teaspoons chili sauce (e.g. who experimented living without to live healthily in our
Sambal Oelek, Tabasco) shampoo, soap, creams, unnaturally densely populated
6 tablespoons rice vinegar, or to moisturizers, deodorants, creams environment.
taste and lotions. How does this
3 eggs woman's skin become more There is a second factor: smell.
2 green onions, chopped healthy after 6 weeks of no Unwashed people tend to smell
washing? I would have thought strongly, particularly from the
Method armpits and groin. The celeb-
that if it was dirty she would
1. To prepare the broth, take a have sores and other skin rated explorer, Laurens van der
large saucepan and pour in the problems. Post, remarked coyly on the rank
water. Then add all the other smell of the San Bushmen when
broth ingredients, except the A. Soap is a recent invention in he visited them in the Kalahari
chicken breasts. Bring to a boil human history. It only became Desert (southern Africa) in the
and then add the chicken commonly available in the 19th 1950’s (Ref. 4). However, their
breasts. century, and then at first only in noses were habituated to the
industrialized countries. odor and they did not notice it.
2. Simmer for at least 30
minutes to bring out the chicken For most of human existence This is a common feature of
flavor in the broth. humans washed themselves no unwashed societies.
more than the average chimp or Humans have batteries of scent-
3. Take out the chicken breasts
gorilla – that is to say, never. We producing glands. What is the
and, with a straining spoon
may be sure that nature purpose of this smell and are we
remove the other broth
designed our skins to work well defeating some natural process
ingredients. Reserve the onion,
under these conditions. by eliminating it?
garlic and ginger, chop and
return to the broth. Indeed, it protects our skin by a The evidence is ambiguous and
mixture of natural oil (sebum) limited to experiments on
and sweat. The two combine to westerners. One clear effect is
Always consult your doctor before undertaking any health program
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sexual attraction. Men are ⋅ Carrot juice, apple juice working mom who's willing to
attracted to the pheromones ⋅ Lettuce juice, apple juice make the changes necessary to
emitted by women (Ref. 5). ⋅ Orange juice. have a healthy lifestyle?
Women are more or less ⋅ Mango and bananas.
A. Congratulations! You have
attracted to a man’s smell c) What can I do to add weight? I already overcome the biggest
according to their position in the weigh 106 lbs and I am 5’2 ¾ obstacle – the psychological one.
menstrual cycle. Some women inches tall. See Question of the Month,
like a man’s smell, others hate it. page 1.
A. You should, of course, continue
It seems as if everybody smells
to work with a medical practitioner The resolution lies in two main
nice to someone else, provided
while you work on our ideas: areas. First restructuring your
that the odor is not too intense
(Ref. 6). The good news is that cancer, (and life so that it is more in harmony
to some extent the conditions you with the way nature intended.
The safe strategy, encouraged by are currently suffering from) is
the perfume industry, is to wash usually preventable by returning to For example, you have a young
off the natural odors and replace the lifestyle that the body expects. baby. Ideally you will have the
them by a scent that everybody Deadly Harvest lays out what you baby with you at all times and
likes. have to do. To be serious, you only work about four hours a day
have to go cold turkey. (See the following article,
What about deodorants? Some “Women’s Work” in Hints &
are antiperspirants and work by One factor that feeds cancer Tips). In particular continue to
causing the sweat glands to growth is sugar. So you have to breast feed for as long as you
shrivel up. Others work by killing pay close attention to keeping can: it is not only best for baby’s
the odor-generating bacteria that blood sugar levels low. For that health but for yours too.
thrive on the sweat. Some reason most fruits, and almost all
combine both. tropical fruits like mango and Devote the extra time to the
banana, are a problem. It is also second main area: taking control
We are not keen on applying why we say to avoid juicing fruits. of other aspects of your lifestyle.
these chemicals to the armpits This is where you have to take a
Of all the fruits, currants and
on a regular basis. If you just hard look at your priorities.
berries (e.g. redcurrant, black-
want to avoid the rank smell, it Undoubtedly you will have to
currant, raspberry, gooseberry,
is normally sufficient to wash the spend more time in the
blackberry) combine the
armpits carefully every 24 hours advantage of moderate sugar beginning thinking about
(or more often as necessary). content with that of rich micro- organizing your day.
Our View? The message is nutrient content.
One of the secrets is in
mixed. Nowadays we do need to However, all is not lost if these are simplifying your life. Not every
clean ourselves (especially our not available. To answer your first meal has to be a recipe from
hands) for hygiene and to avoid question, it is quite all right to Nicole’s cookbook: think up
unpleasant odors. On the other avoid fruit altogether if you load up simple, conforming fixes like the
hand, we are probably on the right vegetable matter. It Tuna & Tomato Quick Fix in the
bamboozled into doing far more often has an even better profile, next article. Tell us your ideas so
of it than strictly necessary. with low or zero sugar content. that we can pass them on!
Endometriosis Matters On this basis we would focus on Don’t forget to get enough sleep,
Q. I have been to three naturo- the celery and lettuce you mention
sunshine and physical activity.
pathic doctors since 2003 due to and avoid the orange juice, carrot
endometriosis (lining of the uterus juice, apple juice, bitter melon, Here we can only give you the
growing outside the uterus), mango and banana. Certainly do general idea. There is more in
myomas (fibroids of the uterus) not juice or blend them. Deadly Harvest. But one
and breast cysts. I took their With regard to your final question, objective of these newsletters is
prescribed supplements. One one of the best cancer-fighting to pass these ideas on – so make
turned me into a vegan. Do you strategies is to be slim and lean. sure to read every one!
have any specific advice to avoid You have a healthy weight for your Hints and Tips
my conditions developing into height, especially if you have a
cancer? typical, fine-boned Filipino build. Women’s Work
a) I live in the Philippines and the This highly charged topic needs
Busy Working Mom
favored fruits (berries) are not to be faced squarely. In Deadly
Q. I'm a mother of a 10 month
available here. Even though I Harvest we describe how women
crave them, is it all right not to
baby and am 30 lbs overweight.
“worked” (gathered food) for
have any fruit at all? I'm fairly active and eager to feel
about 4 hours a day. They would
more energetic. I've purchased
b) I am blending these mixtures of your book and Nicole's cookbook. often be accompanied by their
fruits and vegetables. toddlers. They always carried
What do you suggest for a busy
⋅ Bitter melon, celery, apple their babies with them.

Always consult your doctor before undertaking any health program

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This is a naturally adapted American Speaking Tour manuscript before it was edited
pattern. Ideally women would We are working on putting down for publication.
follow the same pattern today. together a series of talks and To find out more check out the
That would release the time to lectures in southern California for Deadly Harvest link on
care for their family in other March 2008. www.TheBondEffect.com .
ways, notably ensure that they
feed their children in a Web Update From Page 1
disciplined and planned way. Newsletter Archive Question of the Month
Moreover, their children receive Our policy remains that recent
comfort, reassurance and newsletters, (at least the last 18 Obesity Denial
learning by being in close contact months) are inaccessible to the It's a terrible challenge. People
during the working day. general public and only available who are grossly overweight, by
to subscribers. definition have great difficulty
Of course this is a tall order to exercising the self discipline
realize in our modern societies. However, we have expanded and necessary. That is why fat farms
Nevertheless mothers have to try updated our older online are quite effective – but patients
to move in this direction. That is newsletter archive. The complete can’t live their lives in a
the only way to gain control of set of Newsletters, from concentration camp!
your and your children’s December 2005 to the first one
psychological contentment and Humans are not made to resist
in May 1998, is now on open
physical well-being. the temptations that are now
access on the website. Check the
available. Inevitably there is a
link “Newsletter Archive” on
Tuna & Tomato Quick Fix percentage who just cannot
www.TheBondEffect.com .
Young people living on their handle it.
own often come up with quick, The only honest solution is to
We are missing August
simple, yet conforming fixes. deal with the underlying
1999. We would be grateful
Here is one from my student for anyone who can send us a problem: our dysfunctional food
days. copy, electronic or printed. environment.
Take a can of unsalted chopped Your dilemma is very common
tomato and put it in a bowl. Healthy Harvest Update and experienced by all lifestyle
Take a 4 oz can of tuna Nicole has updated and professionals.
(canned in olive or Canola augmented our companion
The only practical way forward is
[rapeseed] oil) and fork it in. cookbook, Healthy Harvest. It is
for you to show, and somehow
Add a dash of Worcester sauce only available online. Check it
persuade, your obese patients to
if desired. out on our Healthy Harvest
structure their lives in ways
information page. Order it from
Eat hot or cold. Preparation which remove as much
the online shop on our website.
time: 45 seconds. temptation as possible.
Recent purchasers of the
New Developments Try the ideas in our Hints and
electronic edition can return to
Tips features.
the web-page and download the
Foreign Language Editions most recent version. Back to our Heritage
Geoff and Nicole are attending
the Frankfurt Book Fair in Deadly Harvest Online Bonus Return to Safer Watermelons
Germany this October. The chief Purchasers of the electronic Our View? This signals a turn in
objective is to negotiate foreign edition of Deadly Harvest also the tide. For the first time, a
language editions of Deadly have access to the “Author’s food producer is developing a
Harvest. Cut”. This is the full text of the natural foodstuff for its health
properties rather than taste.
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