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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
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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.
Published by Natural Eating Co Ltd, 21 Ellados Ave, Suite 117, 8020, Paphos, Cyprus. © 2006 Geoff Bond
September 2006 The Bond Effect Newsletter Page 2 of 4
Recipe 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-
Zucchini Dug-Outs cludes sunflower, pumpkin, sesame
Can be served either hot or cold and pepper to taste. Adjust the and flax seeds with onion, garlic
YYYYY seasonings, if desired. Sau té cloves(4-8) and fresh ginger. Any
Yield: 2 - main dish, 4 - side dish. 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-
−2 lb. zucchini, unpeeled, cut 6. Distribute the mixture equally
spects it is more extreme than we
lengthwise in 2 halves. in the hollowed-out zucchini would advocate.
− salt to taste halves. Sprinkle with the Swiss
We see that you do not eat any
− fresh ground pepper to taste. cheese (optional – not for the animal products – in other words
− 1 teaspoon Italian herbs. purist.). Bake in a preheated it’s a v egan diet. It is good that you
− 1 tablespoon (15 ml) olive oil. 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 –
− 1 white onion (approximately 5 oz,
starches and leg umes.
145 g), chopped. ley prior to serving (optional).
We do argue that the human organ-
− 4 cloves garlic, crushed. Questions ism is naturally adapted to expect
− 1 can (14 oz, 400 g) chopped to- the consumption of some animal
Vitamin C and Colds
matoes, drained. matter – but of a particular and
Q. I heard that one can reduce the
− 1 tablespoon tomato paste. duration of a cold if one boosts special fatty acid profile. In today’s
− pinch ground nutmeg. vitamin C intake at its onset. For world, free range eggs, seafood and
example, by quaffing extra orange most wild game are co nforming.
− 1/2 teaspoon fructose.
or blackcurrant juice. Is this correct Dairy products (which you do not
− 4-6 drops (or to taste) Tabasco mention) are to be avoided.
or just ano ther 'Cold Myth' ?
sauce. However, it is perfectly possible for
A. As the adage goes: “A cold
− 2 tablespoons pine nuts, crushed normally lasts seven days -- but it you to stay on a vegan diet and
− optional: if you treat it, you can cure it in a here we suggest some adjustments
−1 tablespoon Swiss cheese, week!”. to make the best of it.
grated. (Heart loser) This is one of those sayings that - You do not mention nuts. We cer-
−1 tablespoon fresh parsley, 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-
chopped. zil and so on. Always fresh, raw and
situations, an i ncrease in vitamin C
intake can shorten the duration of unsalted.
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1. Carefully scrape out the soft the cold slightly . Mostly it has no - We are not wild about eating
pulp of the zucchini halves with effect at all. In fact, nothing else seeds as such. However, the pump-
helps either. kin seeds are rich in magnesium
a small spoon, so they take on
Fame and fortune awaits the (see Magnesium Deficiency/ Diabe-
the form of a dug-out canoe. tes, page 3) and do not provide a
discoverer of a cure for the
Take half of the pulp and chop digestive challenge. Sesame seed,
common cold.
it very thinly. Set aside (dis- in spite of being an omega-6 grain
pose of the other half). 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
2. Lightly salt and pepper the zuc- abundance of vitamin C (see
great source of omega-3 oil. Sun-
chini halves, sprinkle with half “Vitamin C – How Much?”, page 1).
flower seed is loaded with omega-6
It would be pointless to force an
of the Italian herbs. Place on an oil but it is not a grass seed and is
even greater consumption. We
oiled baking sheet. also a good source of magnesium.
certainly do not recommend fruit
In small amounts it is OK.
3. Bake in a preheated oven at juices anyway (see Food Polic y,
Newsletter March 2006). - Some plant oils are good for salad
400°F (200°C) for 20 minutes. dressing. Focus on the omega-3
Raw Food and Seeds sources: rapeseed oil, hempseed oil
4. Heat the oil in a medium-size
This question raises many and flaxseed oil. (Almond oil is not
frying pan and sauté the onion, fundamental issues, relevant to all, one of them). Most walnut oil is
until they are soft and translu- and which merit a lengthy answer.
made from nuts which have been
Q. I am following a raw food diet of
cent. Stir in the garlic and half roasted, which defeats the object.
mainly vegetables plus fruits with If you can find oil from fresh wal-
of the zucchini pulp. Sauté all no grains or cereals. I use the nuts, this is good too .
together for about 10 minutes. sprouts of flower and vegetable
seeds and sometimes wheat grass Omega-3 oils are fragile and oxidize
5. Now add the drained t omatoes, easily into toxic products so always
juices. I use 2 to 3 teaspoons per
tomato paste and the rest of day of walnut or almond oil as a