Nutritional Anthropology™: Eating in Harmony with our Genetic Heritage

March 2005 The Bond Effect vol 8.03

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Evolutionary Psychology: Sleep Patterns and Campfires. Our Complex Bodies: Chaos: The Butterfly Effect. Q of
Month: Hunger and Fruit Dilemma. Stop Press: Natural Eating in French. Recipe: Conny’s Moussaka. Q&A:
Hunger, Hormones and Lifestyle -- Part 1; XanGo and Mangosteen Review; Bone Cancer Pain; Life Expectancy
Delusions. Breakfast Tips: Eggs Any Style. Odd But True: Sunlight Prevents Cancer.
Evolutionary Psychology Our Complex Bodies Question of Month
Sleep Patterns and Campfires Chaos: The Butterfly Effect Hunger & Fruit Dilemma
“Sleep that knits up the ravell’d Q. I try to eat fruit through the
sleavea of care.” (Macbeth) brain morning as you suggest. However I
find that it makes me more hungry
Forager tribes like the San (and like
than ever. What is going on?
our ancient ancestors) sleep accord-
ing to the rhythms of day and night. A. In a word: “Fructose”. On page 2
In the tropics, whatever the season, we mention that the fruit sugar,
dusk comes around 6.00 pm and the fructose, does not send “full up”
dawn around 6.00 am. signals to the brain. It does not
liver increase insulin (which is good from
For a few hours after dusk, the San
other points of view) and it doesn’t
huddle around the campfire talking
increase leptin -- both hormones that
quietly and doing little odd jobs by
tell the brain to stop feeling hungry.
the firelight. Sleep would come stomach In a double whammy, fructose
around 9.30 pm. They would wake
increases concentrations of the “feel
up with the dawn.
gut hungry” hormone, ghreline 1.
The crea tures from whom we are
Some systems in the world math em- Researchers are also beginning to
descended, Homo Erectus, discover-
find other drawbacks to a “high
ed fire at least 1 million years ago. aticians call “chaotic”. That is, they
fructose” diet. By this they mean a
We can imagine the nights with obey all physical laws, yet the
massive intake of some 100 grams
strange unknown rustlings in the outcome of any particular action is
per day. Many teenagers (particular-
dark. The campfire must have been mathematically impossible to predict.
ly boys) get to this level by the
a great comfort. One such system is the weather.
consumption, not of fruits, but of just
We all feel, even today, the Even if we knew everything about five 12 oz cans of cola2.
fascination of a living fire. Gazing pressure, temperature and so forth,
there is no way of predicting the At this level of consumption, fructose
reflectively into the f lames is an
undermines blood sugar control,
indescribable pleasure deeply weather with total accuracy. The Jeff
drives up glucose intolerance, blood
anchored in our psyche. Campfires Goldblum character in Jurassic Park
pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides
constitute a flickering island of explained what is known as the
and insulin resistance2.
reassurance going back to the “butterfly effect” -- the idea that a
Continued Page 4.
beginning of human existence. The butterfly flapping its wings in Japan
firelight comforts us with its pool of could set off a n unpredictable train of Stop Press
light and warmth. It chases the night events which trigger a tornado in
Texas.
Natural Eating in French
horrors away; the dancing flames
Oskarson, our French publisher,
conjure up fantasies of the Our body’s biochemistry is a similar announces that he will launch the
imagination. “chaotic system”. Above, we show a French edition of Natural Eating into
This is our naturally adapted prelude diagram of just a few o f the signals all good bookshops in France on
to sleep. Sleep which, to paraphrase reverberating between the digestive Friday April 22, 2005. French
Shakespeare, restores the harmon- system, liver and brain. When all readers will benefit from an updated
ious workings of our body for another works well, they cause us to eat or and much expanded edition.
day (see Sleep Deficit, page 3) not eat according to the needs of the
In the meantime Geoff is working on
body. In Hunger, Hormones and Life-
a completely new book for English-
a
Skein (of yarn) style, page 2, we look at what happ-
speaking readers to be published by
ens when the signaling goes wrong.
SquareOne out of New York.
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Recipe of the Month Questions are consuming a powerful addictive
drug that will make you want more of
Cookbook author and Natural Eating To answer the following question we it as soon as its effects wear off.
practitioner Conny Schober of have to explain a number of funda-
Vancouver provides this recipe. mental issues about the perspective It is a harsh message to hear. Those
hunger cravings are withdrawal
Contact: [email protected] we have on Western lifestyle. For this
reason we have given it plenty of symptoms driven by being deprived of
Conny’s Moussaka an addictive drug for a few hours. The
space. Here is part 1, part 2 next
YYYYY month. only way out is to either wean yourself
4 servings off slowly or go cold turkey. Either
Hunger, Hormones and Lifestyle way you never put them in your body
Ingredients: Q. As a health professional, I still again.
3 lb (1¼ kg) Eggplant don’t understand why so many
24 oz (675 g) Chicken Breast, minced, women struggle so with food cravings. Never put sugars or starches in
skinless and fatless I have this problem myself, and find your body ever again.
*
1¾ lb (800 g) Marinara Sauce , ready- that cravings for sugar and chocolate Once you are ‘clean’ you are like a
even though I think I’ve been eating a reformed alcoholic who must never
made, high quality (check the
balanced and natural diet. I have again let alcohol pass his lips. Do so
ingredients) found some literature on estradiol and the bottom of the slippery slope
1 Tablesp. Olive Oil levels and total food intake, but awaits.
Salt and pepper to taste nothing that explains these cravings. Of course there are many people,
Option: 2 oz (60 g) Parmesan cheese, Can you give me some direction? particularly pharmaceutical compan-
grated A. Yes, but perhaps not the one you ies, who try to spare you the pain by
Method:
think. Our bodies rely on a complex finding magic potions that allow you to
interplay of signals to regulate food keep up your drug addiction without
Slice the eggplant lengthways in slices
consumption. Hormones and nerves suffering the consequences.
¼ inch (½ cm) thick. are constantly relaying messages to They are busy trying to find chemicals
Steam them for 10 minutes or until our brain and back again to our that will manipulate that incredibly
done. digestive system. A diagram of some complex system of hormonal
Separate them into three lots. of the workings is shown on page 1, feedback. Their researches-- eve n if
Meanwhile heat the oil in a frying pan “Our Complex Bodies”. The details unsuccessful in finding a solution --
are still not fully known and they are have extended our knowledge of how
and sauté the minced chicken,
extraordinarily difficult to analyze . our biochemistry works.
taking care to separate it well.
However, one thing is clear: a wide “Eat” or “Don’t Eat” Hormones
Add the marinara sauce to the
variety of factors disturb the naturally We now know that there are dozens
chicken and heat through. adapted “eat” or “don’t eat ” of hormones that tell the brain to feel
Take a large, oiled baking dish and instructions. For example, being fat, hunger and there are certainly as
cover the bottom with the firs t lot the wrong feeding pattern, even lack many that tell the brain to feel
of steamed eggplant slices. Salt and of sleep, will drive up hunger pangs. satiated. In 1999 a powerful “hunger
pepper to taste. You have focused on the hormone hormone” was discovered and
Take half of the chicken and marinara estradiol. This is just one of dozens of baptized “ghrelin”. It was hoped that
mixture and spread it over the first compounds whizzing around our by blocking ghrelin, hunger could be
bodies that, combined, have quite controlled. But it was soon found that
layer of eggplant.
unpredictable (“chaotic”) effects on other hungry-making compounds
Place the second lot of eggplant in our system. such as Melanin-Concentrating
the next layer. Salt and pepper to Hormone step in to take its place.
This is why we fall back on the rock-
taste. solid knowledge given by our naturally Some of the compounds that take
Spread the remaining chicken and adapted lifestyle. There are many away appetite are insulin, oxynto-
marinara mixture over the eggplant factors where our lives are out of joint modulin, leptin and the hormone you
slices. with the way nature designed our mention, estradiol. Some unexpected
Place the third lot of aubergine slices bodies to work on the savannas of consequences are coming to light:
east Africa. fructose, for example is a sugar that
in a final layer. Salt and pepper to
Food Addiction does not raise insulin levels, so it
taste
But when one talks of cravings, we does not suppress ghrelin so hunger
Optional: sprinkle with Parmesan is not suppressed after a fructose-rich
immediately think of addictions. W hat
cheese. is the most addictive thing in our diet meal (see Hunger and Fruit Dilemma,
Heat through in the oven at 350°F today? It is sugars and their hand- page 1).
(180°C) for 10 mins. until the maidens, starches . Human biochem- Ghrelin production is reduced after
cheese is melted. istry is no more adapted to handling consuming a lot of calories -- but not,
these compounds healthily than it is to for some unknown reason, in fat
*
any tomato, onion, garlic and herb sauce handling crack cocaine. Each time people. The same happens with a
you consume one of these things, you hormone called PYY that the gut
often sold as a pasta sauce.
March 2005 The Bond Effect Newsletter page 3
secretes: it sends a “feeling full” signal 90% consists of nine concentrates of them out of the diet too. This includes
to the brain. However, it has no effect commonly available fruits. Does this all beef, pork and lamb products. It
in fat people. matter? Probably not if you don’t mind also includes ALL dairy products --
Sleep Deficit paying all that money for fruit you butter, milk, yogurt and cheese. It also
Today the average American sleeps could get cheap, fresh and includes hydrogenated and transfats.
two hours fewer than in the 1960’s. unprocessed in your local super- They mostly occur in ready-to-eat
He certainly sleeps less -- and less market. And oh yes, all those meals, cakes, biscuits and ice cream.
well -- than the ideal for which our concentrates are about 35% sugar AVOID.
naturally adapted sleeping pattern has (10 grams per 1 oz serving), so don’t As you say, the patient has to want to
programmed us. (See Sleep Patterns overdose. make these changes. Let him know
and Campfires, page 1) An unexpect- XanGo sells its product through multi- that by making these changes, he is
ed consequence is that sleep level marketing. If you are a master now putting the right fuel into his
deprivation reduces appetite- distributor, make your money quickly body, just as nature intended. He has
suppressing hormones such as leptin (from people who don’t read this stacked the deck of cards in his favor.
and it increases hunger-inducing newsletter) before mangosteen goes After that, it is his decision.
hormones such as ghrelin. the same way as pycnogenol and all “Life Expectancy” Delusions
Next Month: Part 2 -- Physical the other wonder remedies. Q. You say that the life expectancy of
Activity Deficit, Hormonal Dodgems Bone Cancer Pain a 15 -year old American farm-boy
and Hunger Control in a Nutshell. Q. My friend has prostate cancer today is no better than a 15-year old
XanGo & Mangosteen Review metastasized into certain bones . He farm-boy 150 years ago. How can this
has radiotherapy and chemotherapy be? Male life expectancy back then
Q. I am being tempted by an exotic
more and more frequently. I want to was 47 years, today it is 74 years.
fruit product called mangosteen juice
try a more natural approach, but the A. Geoff Bond replies: My grand-
and sold by XanGo. XanGo claims
patient needs to be convinced and father was born into a Victorian fa mily
that it gives energy and boosts the
willing to try. My question is: can we where a total of 10 children were
immune system. What do you think?
hope, through diet, to reduce the pain born. Fi ve succumbed, before the age
A. The mangosteen is a fruit found in in the bones? of ten, to childhood diseases like
countries like Thailand. The fruit itself
A. Yes, we can hope -- but here is no scarlet fever, whooping cough, and
has a benefit to companies like
time to lose. The first thi ng to do is measles. The other five lived until
XanGo: it is not available in the West.
practice, with utmost rigor, the lifestyle about 85 years old.
XanGo can thus bottle it and sell it on
changes summari zed in the table on When my grandfather was born into
at ‘must have’ prices.
page 158 of the Natural Eating Book. that family he had a 50% chance of
The selling point is this: the There is also more complete dying by 10 years old or a 5 0%
mangosteen’s rind contains com- information on our website: chance of making it to 85. The
pounds called “xanthones”. These are www.BeatCancerNaturally.com. average life expectancy AT BIRTH in
kinds of flavonoids. Flavonoids are
If the patient has difficulty eating, then that family was around 47.
important micronutrients for the body.
now is not the time to stand on “At birth” is the qualification that is
It depends on them to build immune
ceremony: liquidize everything as often missed out when bandying such
function properly and maintain just
necessary. statistics about. The big difference
about every other bioc hemical
process. Of course flavonoids in With the particular question about today is that we are much better at
general, including xanthones, are pain, there are certain things we can keeping infants alive through
found throughout the plant kingdom. do. Certain, very powerful hormones childhood illnesses. This boosts
Mangos, too, contain xanthones. called eicosanoids control pain dramatically the averages for life
sensitivity. Omega-6 oils such as corn expectancy AT BIRTH.
What about the juice sold by XanGo?
oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil and However, I am talking about
XanGo sells it in 25 fl oz bottles at
safflower oil convert to eicosanoids remaining life expectancy at age
$39.95 each. The recommended daily
which INCREASE sensitivity to pain. He FIFTEEN. Back in my grandfather’s
“dose” is 1 fl oz, so a bottle will last 25
should ruthlessly cut them out. family, if you got safely to 15 years
days. It contains not only extracts of
mangosteen but also: Omega-3 oils convert to eicosanoids old, your remaining life e xpectancy at
apple juice concentrate, that DECREASE sensitivi ty to pain (and age 15 was a further 70 years. As it
pear juice concentrate, inflammation). Make sure that the happens, this is BETTER than 15-year-
grape juice concentrate, patient eats plenty of oily fish old boys today. They have a remain-
pear purée, (sardine, salmon, trout etc.) if he can. ing life expectancy of 60.3 years 3 .
blueberry juice concentrate, If he can’t, use fish oil capsules. That is, they can “expect” to live a
raspberry juice concentrate, Anyway include a tablespoon of further 60.3 years and die at age 75.3
strawberry juice concentrate, FLAXSEED OIL three times a day in the (These are figures for the year 2002).
cranberry juice concentrate food preparation (e.g. vinaigrette) or The point I am trying to make is that
cherry juice concentrate. mix it into the liquidized food. we kid ourselves when we say that
In other words XanGo is probably only Saturated fats BLOCK the favorable “we are living longer than ever
10% mangosteen extract. The other activities of omega-3, so he must cut before.” By the time anyone is old
March 2005 The Bond Effect Newsletter page 4
enough to know what the phrase Odd But True We are faced with the dilemma that
means, their remaining life farmers are breeding fruit to be ever
expectancy is no better t han it was in Sunlight prevents Cancer sweeter and less fibrous than in the
rural America 150 years ago. We are all tropical creatures: in Dec. past. The nature of fruit is now quite
2002 we reported that we now over- different compared to the fruits our
So let’s not delude ourselves. This is compensate for fears of s kin cancer
IN SPITE OF today’s massive health- ancestors would have found on the
by staying indoors too much. Women African savannas. They do still
care provision to keep old people who live in gloomy, overcast regions
alive that simply was not available to contain all kinds of very good micro-
of the United States had three times nutrients that our bodies need. But
my grandfather’s generation. MORE risk of breast cancer compared our recommendation to consume
In fact, researchers are now to those who lived in the sunniest some 2 lb per day needs qualifying.
predicting that average life expect- parts .
ancy at birth is going to get WORSE, 2 lb of fruit could provide up to some
Now two more studies 5 reinforce t he 70 gram of fruc tose -- close to the
once the younger generation, riddled message: sunshine helps melanoma
with lifestyle diseases, get to middle levels seen as health threatening in
sufferers RECOVER; and it prevents recent studies. We reinforce the
age and fall off the perch. people getting lymphatic cancer. The advice to spread consumption over
Parents in their 60’s and 7 0’s are trick is to get sunlight regularly but many hours.
already burying their children who avoid burning.
have died in their 40’s and 50’s -- of In the future we will be having to
cancers, heart attacks, strokes, and From Page 1 choose fruits that are not only low
so forth. glycemic but also less sweet and low
Question of the Month (Cont.)
in fructose. Apples, for exa mple, even
Breakfast Tips Hunger and Fruit Dilemma if they have a relatively low glycemic
All this is mentioned in the Natural index, are very rich in fructose -- over
Eggs Any-Style
We need to go for low Insulin Index 4 Eating book page 123. We also 8 grams of fructose per 100 grams
foods, however unusual they might seem. mention that it gives intestinal (plus 3 gram of glucose). 100g of
disturbances. apple concentrate, ofte n used as a
In fact eggs are fine for breakfast --
and this idea is quite in keeping with The liver also easily converts fructose “natural sweetener”, contains 40g of
our traditions. So boiled eggs, to fat. In a study 6 on fat five-year olds, fructose. On the other hand, rasp-
omelets, poached eggs, scrambled all-natural apple juice was as fattening berries and strawberries are both low
eggs, and fried eggs are fine. Always as Kool-Aid (a powdered fruit drink glycemic and low in fructose (about
go for free-range, omega-3 rich eggs containing 16 grams of sugar per 3.5g per 100g).
if you can. Two to three e ggs make a serving). We will go more into fruit choices next
reasonable serving. Nevertheless, researchers hasten to month. As for eating fruit through the
Make sure you avoid the temptation to reassure us that we should not, for morning, this is only one of many
serve the eggs with bread or French these reasons, stop eating fresh fruit. choices. We have been serializing
fries and also avoid cheese (e.g. in We agree, although we think a degree alternative breakfast ideas for several
omelets). Instead, accompany them of caution is necessary. Farmers have months now. (See Breakfast Tips, this
with a copious green salad or any bred fruits in recent years to be page.)
vegetable that takes your fancy. Any increasingly sweet. Apples have
reached an intensity of sweetness 1
kind of vegetable filling will do for J Clin Endocrinology & Metab. (2004) Vol 89,
omelets: sautéed mushrooms are a that is almost sickly. One medium no 6, 2963
2
classic but it is just as easy to sauté apple contains 8 grams of fructose . Am J Clin Nutr. 2002;76:911-22
3
National Vital Statistics Report, vol 53, no 6, Nov
some frozen diced mixed vegetables. John Maynard Keynes, the Nobel 10 2004
Recap of Previous Breakfast Ideas: pri ze-winning economist, said: “when 4
Natural Eating Newsletter; Jan 2005
• Freshly blended vegetable soup the facts change, I change my mind -- 5
J Cancer. Feb 10 2005
• Vegetable and shrimp stir fry what do you do?” 6
Pediatrics, Feb, 2005

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