January 2011

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Q of Month: Stone-Age Grain Eating. Sunshine is Human Food: Rickets Girl Wore Sun Factor 50. Misleading Media: Claim: 5-a-day is a ‘Myth’. Famous Last Words: Montignac: on Exercise. Food Ideas: Conforming Bread is on its Way. Questions: Relieving Prostate Troubles; Yacon Syrup; Hemp Seed is Fine; Fruit Sugar Explained. Editorial: Prostate Research Deficit. A Good Month For… Hunter Gatherers in Medical Journals. Fitness Guru Success: Jack Lalanne Makes it to 96. Deadly Harvest Out-takes: Procrustean Bed part II Sunshine is Human Food: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia; Chubbier Kids. Web Updates: Natural Eating Online in French & German.

Question of the Month Sunshine is Human Food Misleading Media Hype Our bodies expect to receive Stone Age Grain Eating Claim: 5-a-day is a ‘Myth’ sunlight to work properly… In recent Briefings I have Rickets Girl Wore Sun Factor 50 focused on how daft, yet highly publicized claims, blow people off course. I’m all for contrarian thinking – I consider myself a contrarian too. That is why I am paid good money to give CPD lectures to hospital doctors – even though they have 100,000 year-old grinding cobbles in-house dieticians. Q. What do you make of the The medical profession trusts what reports claiming that Stone I say because, in spite of being Agers ate grains in Africa over strikingly original, it is evidence- 100,000 years ago [1]? based, scientifically rigorous, Tyler Atrill, 12, lives in the intellectually honest and casts new A. Not too surprised. We’ve light on old problems. always known that hunter- seaside resort of Sandown, UK. gatherers will, when really Her mother, Lisa, says: “We live Now a ‘nutrition expert’, Zoe desperate, grind up seeds of all right by the beach so … I’ve Harcombe has published a controversial article in the 24 th kinds to keep themselves alive. always … nagged her to wear hats and sun-cream. I thought I January 2011 edition of the Daily In my first book, Natural Eating , was doing the right thing.” Mail, a UK newspaper. She claims Chapter 3 , p. 42, I talk about that the mantra to consume 5-a- how, in times of scarcity, the But Prof. Nicholas Clarke, of day fruit and vegetables is a Australian Aborigine would press Southampton Gen. Hospital ‘myth’ (sic). the millstone into service. diagnosed Tyler with early rickets, a disease caused by lack Here is a challenge to all my readers. Read the article here: This study, of a site near Lake of vitamin D resulting in soft, http://bit.ly/hhfI95 , analyse it for Nyasa, found grinding cobbles weak bones. together with grains of wild flaws, manipulation, half-truths, sorghum, a native grass. Prof Clarke, warned of an pretend science and suchlike. Then ‘astonishing’ resurgence of write to me with your findings. I’ll The condensed summary of the rickets. He told Mrs. Atrill that do an exposé next month. study (known as its ‘Abstract’) the liberal use of sunscreen See ‘ Procrustean Bed ’ Page 3. rather disingenuously says that likely caused Tyler’s vitamin D this ‘shows’ that early Homo deficiency. Famous Last Words sapiens ‘relied’ on grass seeds. My View? Almost ten years ago "To eat less and exercise more is However, even in scientific I raised the alarm in: ‘Rickets dangerous. It increases obesity. articles, we don’t let down our Returns ’, April 2001 . Exercise has never helped guard: we check out the detail. anyone lose weight." And in my article: ‘Docs say In the main text the author is Sunshine is Not the Cause of Michel Montignac, diet guru who more scrupulous: ‘the data imply Melanoma ’ August 2008 I report died early (aged 66) – but slim. that early Homo sapiens the British Medical Journal calling See: ‘Diet Gurus’ Health Status’ consumed not just underground into question the received December 2010 staples… Cont p.4 wisdom. Cont p.4

Food Ideas It helps to have: Fruit Sugar Explained − Moderate alcohol intake Q. I am confused about fruit Conforming Bread on its Way It is bad to: sugars. One source says that

− Be obese, fruit extracts – such as apples − Consume dairy products and grapes – are low GI − Have a high fat diet (notably (Glycemic Index). butter and margarine) Last month you said that “grape − Have a high red meat intake juice concentrate is just another − Be a couch potato form of sugar”. If not fructose − Consume cereals, bread, pasta do grapes contain glucose? sugars, confectionary. How many different ‘fruit In other words, follow the Bond sugars’ are there? Last month in: ’How to Raise Precepts, and the right pattern A. Broadly speaking, the sugars Bond Cakes ’ and in: ‘Xanthan comes automatically. in fruits consist of a cocktail of Gum ’, I said we would experi- See also Editorial, ‘ Prostate three types: glucose, fructose ment with chia flour* and Research Defici t’, this page. and sucrose. Sucrose is just baking powder. Chia’s high gum Yacon Syrup ordinary table sugar and is a content serves to trap the Q. I have come across recipes chemical combination (called a bubbles. In wheat flour this is using ‘yacon syrup’. Is it low ‘disaccharide’) of glucose and done by the dreaded gluten. glycemic and is it conforming? fructose. This is our first attempt at bread A. Yes. Yacon syrup is low Different fruits have various (thanks to Kim Lloyd for glycemic – it gets it sweetness levels of Total Sugar content. prompting us). It uses about 3 from inulin (a kind of plant They also have different ratios parts almond butter, to one part fiber). Inulin is also the principle of the three sugars. As a rule of chia flour. sweetener in Somersweet (see thumb, it is best to have the Even though this is just a first ‘Alternative Sweetener: lowest Total Sugars, and the attempt, I am bringing it to you Somersweet ’, February 2010 ). lowest glucose. now because the results are so The yacon root is allied to On this score, grape juice exciting. The dough rose nicely, Jerusalem artichoke – a root concentrate has a high ratio of and the bread has good taste which is also conforming. See glucose: 30% to fructose 30%. and texture. ‘Non-Starchy Vegetables’ , Sucrose is 1%. The Total Sugars The slices also toast well and Deadly Harvest , Chapter 3, content is 61%, the rest is make a good platform for fried page 56. mainly water. eggs for example. Hemp Seed Just Fine In comparison, apple juice We expect to have a fine-tuned Q. What is your opinion of concentrate has 13% glucose, recipe for you next month. hempseed? You don’t mention 35% fructose and 10% sucrose it much in Deadly Harvest. (Total Sugars 58%, the rest is *Thanks to www.nuchiafoods.com (Homer mainly water). This is a better Hartage) for supplying the chia flour. A. It’s good (I give it ‘green- green’ status in Chapter 6 , profile, but not by much. Questions pages 151-153). Confusingly, fructose is often Relieving Prostate Troubles But I didn’t give prominence to called ‘fruit sugar’ (which has a hemp products because the USA ‘good’ name) whilst on the label, Q. Do the Bond Precepts help food manufacturers call any with enlarged prostate (BPH)? had banned them since the 1930’s on the flimsy grounds type of sugar from fruits ‘fruit A. Yes. I last reported on this in that they are of the same plant sugar’. See also ‘Fruit Sugar October 2008 , but I can put it April 2001 family as marijuana. Smart ’, differently into this protocol: By 2001 the situation in USA Editorial It is essential to have: had eased and Canada began − A low-glycemic diet (no Prostate Research Deficit exporting to USA: see ‘ Hemp starches or sugars) Prostate troubles (BPH) impact High ’ April 2001 , and ‘Hemp: − A high intake of micro- hugely on the quality of life for Triumph of Common Sense ’, nutrients – salads, colored many older men in industrialized March 2002 . vegetables and berries (which societies – yet it hardly affects are low sugar fruits, see ‘ Fruit Hemp products are freely men in the third world. Sugar Explained ’, this page) available in other parts of the We know that dogs and apes in − Vigorous physical activity at world but are not easily found captivity (both creatures obliged regular intervals. and can be expensive. to eat what we give them) − A conforming fatty acid See also ‘ Hempseed ’, Dec 2009 . suffer from it too. So what is profile. going on?

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It is hard to believe that nature Fitness Guru Success be just too bad for mankind. There intended this to happen and we Diet gurus Atkins and Montignac will have to be some stretching and do have enough evidence to didn’t live up to their expectations amputations…” - Aldous Huxley confirm that lifestyle has every- [Diet Gurus’ Health Status, Now: Procrustean Bed, Part II thing to do with it. See ‘Reliev- December 2010 ]. Here I am Nature’s Misfit with Modern World ing Prostate Troubles’ p.2. pleased to report on one who did. In his imaginary world, set in However, in spite of the fact Jack Lalanne Makes it to 96 the 26th century, Huxley that BPH is so widespread, it is ironically set out the solution. If scandalous how little priority the “Procrustean Bed” could not has been given to studying the be changed, then human nature lifestyle link. must be engineered to fit. I cite the most credible studies - Already (in 1931) Huxley the case controlled ones – in observed that Ministries of references [2]. Their results I Propaganda, newspaper editors have distilled into the protocol and schoolteachers were in: ‘Relieving Prostate Troubles ’, conniving to brainwash the page.2 . population into accepting the Even so, the researchers often current situation as normal. Imagine an 8-year-old seeing remark that: ‘We need further this advertised in his kids’ In the future, states would use analysis to identify novel prev- magazine. I was captivated and greatly improved techniques of ention and treatment of BPH’. wanted to be like Jack Lalanne. suggestion and conditioning to And therein lies the problem. In Only trouble was my weekly control a population “who do not whose interest is it to carry out pocket money, of 6d (‘sixpence’ have to be coerced, because these expensive studies? Not in old money – now 2½p, or they love their servitude”. the pharmaceutical companies – 4 cents) came nowhere near All this might sound apocalyptic and not the alternative medicine buying into his program! That yet, as we saw in chapter 5 , industry either: the sale of was back in Lalanne’s heyday in [Deadly Harvest ], since 1931 herbal remedies and dietary the early 1950’s psycho-marketing techniques supplements is a multi-billion Lalanne ate two meals a day are all-pervasive. They dollar industry! and avoided snacks. His manipulate us to behave in Last month I revealed aspects of breakfast, after working out for ways that serve the interests of my own health status. I can add two hours, consisted of hard- the Procrustean Bed, rather that I have never suffered from boiled egg whites, a cup of than our own best interests as prostate troubles either. So, if broth, oatmeal with soy milk human beings. one test case is anything to go and seasonal fruit. Dinner was The plains of the Midwest by, the Bond Precepts work! typically raw vegetables and egg produce huge quantities of A Good Month For… whites along with fish. He did grain; someone must consume not drink coffee. it. Similar observations go for …mainstream medical journals My View? I’m amazed Lalanne beef, sugar, potato, tobacco, carrying articles about hunter- had any followers with such a soybean, milk, sunflower oil and gatherer fitness. stern program – unnecessary in many more. Thanks to Dr Rita Stec for my view to deprive himself of That is: what is on offer, people pointing out Dr O’Keefe’s review egg yolks (omega-3 of course!) must be persuaded to want and published in The American and coffee. He could have buy it. And the best way to Journal of Medicine [3]. cooked some of his vegetables. persuade them? Make them feel Dr O’Keefe says we would all be The oatmeal and soy milk is a good about it – make them a lot healthier if we emulated small lapse, but what the heck, “love their servitude”. the type and amount of physical he did live to 96. Just think But it is an illusion: in reality it activity prevalent in the Stone what he could have done on the makes them sick, obese, Age. He sets out how in the full Bond Precepts! neurotic and, in the longer term, article (Item 17). For example, dissatisfied and unhappy. forager gathering of plant food Deadly Harvest Out-takes corresponds, in energy terms, to My editor expertly pared down When I wrote that passage, I us weeding the garden. my Deadly Harvest script. But I hadn’t realized just how much regret losing passages like this. everything we do is riddled with For my own presentation of these dysfunctional messages. Pleistocene exercise, check out Last month ended with: ‘Physical Activity’ Deadly “…the scientist will prepare the bed The latest is the Zoe Harcombe Harvest , Chapter 8 , page 187. on which mankind must lie; and if article (page 1). Guess what? – mankind does not fit – well, that will she has a book to sell!

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Sunshine is Human Food French Sorghum has low levels of Full text still available online at: gluten (a good thing) but has Our bodies expect to receive http://bit.ly/NE-French high levels of substances to sunlight to work properly… From Page 1 which we are not adapted - Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Question of the Month allergens [6]. A Mayo Clinic study finds that But the clincher is this: our vitamin D deficient patients Stone Age Grain Eating evolutionary history did not suffering from chronic lymphocytic … but above-ground resources design our biochemistry or leukemia were twice as likely to too’. See Full text (Item 11). die as patients with adequate digestive system for grains and So let’s get this into levels of vitamin D [4]. we do best not to consume perspective. Of all the millions them in any meaningful way. Chubbier Kids of stone tools discovered in the From Page 1 Prof. Eduardo Villamor, University Old World – scrapers, ax heads Sunshine is Human Food of Michigan studied Colombian and so forth – only a tiny children. He found that those who number are hand grinders. Rickets Girl Wore Sun Factor 50 were vitamin D deficient got fat This is consistent with grass It gets better: in an about turn, and gained weight more rapidly a consensus of seven health than kids who had enough [5]. seeds forming only a small and intermittent part of the Homo institutions [Endnote 7] recently He said: "The kids lived in a sub- sapiens food supply. Moreover, urged people to spend up to 15 tropical zone where sunlight is minutes in the midday sun abundant, but there could be we have no idea how widespread it was: here we without sunscreen three times a many reasons they don’t get week to boost vitamin D levels. enough sun". have only a single site from one band of hunter-gathers. Full Text (Item 19) My View? Yes – like using sun- block! (see p.1.) or because 99% The flour obtained from wild Events – Advance Notice of the population spend their lives sorghum would have been For latest details, see Events living, working and traveling starchy, yes, but coarse and full page, or our Facebook Group . shielded from the sun. of bran and grit. Feb 2011 – March 2011 That is the massive change that It had to be cooked, as any USA has happened just in my lifetime. starch must, but its character- Private: For information only : How many kids today have to wait istics would have been nothing Speaking Tour at bus-stops, cycle to school or like modern day bread. CME - CPD lectures for doctors are shooed out into the street to In Deadly Harvest , Chapter 2 , play whatever the weather? March 5, 2011 page 40, I describe how the Web Updates Palm Desert, California industrialization of milling and Open to Public: Illustrated Talk baking debased, in unexpected Natural Eating in Foreign Tongues Segovia Community ways, the bread we know today. German 2:00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. The full text of the German The Stone Agers stone-ground April 30 2011 edition of Natural Eating is now patties would have had more Paphos, Cyprus available online: nutrients, but it was still starchy Open to Public: P3A lecture, www.naturaleater.com/german.htm and so, glycemic. 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 midday

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