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Food Savvy It is a well-known medical fact branches with one arm. In other
that tumors create an acidic words, it is a fallacy to think that
We don’t have space for a recipe environment for themselves and one has to eat protein-rich foods
this month. But you can savor acidify nearby tissues (refs: 3, in order to have a sufficient
nearly 100 recipes in Nicole’s 4). The argument is, that if we protein intake. (See Deadly
new cookbook Healthy Harvest. can keep the fluids in the Harvest Page 125)
Info. Order from shopping cart. neighborhood of the tumor The gorilla is an extreme: our
alkaline, then that will stop the evolutionary heritage designed
tumor from spreading and might humans to consume a moderate
Many of our readers are
even cause it to shrivel up. percentage of animal matter.
confused by the many different
forms of “bad” sweeteners and A relentlessly acid-forming diet Alternatively, maybe your son
sugar aliases found in processed (Deadly Harvest page 108) puts will be more impressed by an
foods. Here is a check list which undue stress on a number of argument he can identify with.
you can cut out and keep in your organs including the pancreas, For example, this picture of me
purse. It is abstracted from liver, thyroid and lymphatic holding a chin-up with jack-
Deadly Harvest, page 155. system, causing them to knife.
malfunction, leading to cancer in
extreme cases.
BAD SWEETENERS But the clincher is this, and the
HIGH GLYCEMIC SWEETENERS
evidence is undeniable: people
apple juice concentrate
who eat a diet rich in vegetation
barley malt
(fruits, salads and colored
blackstrap molasses
vegetables) are not likely to get
date sugar
any kind of cancer. And this kind
golden syrup
of vegetation is strongly
grape juice concentrate
alkalizing!
high fructose corn syrup
honey, all Other reasons concern the rich
invert sugar cargo of micronutrients which
malt feed the immune system; and
maple syrup the contribution of vegetation to
molasses colon health.
sugar, white, brown, icing So the conclusion is that eating a
treacle diet rich in fruit, salads and
vegetables provides the signals Finally tell him that a high
SUGAR ALIASES & VARIANTS that the body recognizes to protein (acidic) diet actually
dextrose defeat cancer cells. How much is causes muscle wasting! Whereas
galactose due to the alkalizing effect, or to plants BUILD muscle. See News
glucose the micronutrients, or to the Shorts – Plants Preserve Muscle
lactose colon bio-mass is not known – Mass, page 3.
levulose but we don’t need to know for it Finally, tell your son not to
maltodextrin to work! waste his money on protein
maltose
See also Hints & Tips – powders and drinks.
saccharose
Measuring Acid-Alkali Status. Omega-3 Eggs – How Made?
sucrose
Youngster Protein Intake Q. How do they get the omega-3
Next Month: “Good” Sugars oil into the egg – do they inject
Q. I and my husband have
Questions converted whole-heartedly to it in?
eating the way you say. But my A. No! They simply feed the
Acid-forming Diet and Cancer 20-year-old son (who still lives chickens on omega-3 rich foods
Q. I hear that cancers only grow with us) complains that he won’t – just like nature intended.
in an acid environment. That is be able to maintain his muscles Commonly they include the right
why cancer is so prevalent today like this. He considers that he amounts of flaxseed into the
– the general population is should be eating more protein- chicken feed. Others use fish oil
eating an acid-forming diet. Is it rich foods. (Ref 5).
true then, that doing as you say,
A. On the contrary! There are a In the wild, chicken’s eggs, just
and eating an alkalizing diet, we
number of arguments you can like the eggs our ancestors ate,
can avoid cancer?
use with your son. Paint a would have naturally occurring
A. The bottom line is yes, but picture of the 400lb gorilla. It omega-3. In Deadly Harvest,
the reasons are rather more lives entirely on vegetation yet page 129, and Newsletter April
complex. builds weightlifter muscles 2007, I cite Artemis Simopoulos
capable of lifting itself into the whose study found: “on the
Always consult your doctor before undertaking any health program
May 2008 The Bond Effect Newsletter Page 3 of 4
Ampelistra farm in Greece, “Should Different Races Have This is what is happening. Over-
purslane (rich in omega-3 oils) is Different Lifestyles”, page 1). night, many nighttime processes
plentiful and grows wild; the Moreover, every one of us has are producing an excess of acid
chickens make a feast of it, the same requirement: to which the kidneys get rid of as
along with insects and lots of maintain a neutral acid/alkali soon as you wake up. During the
fresh green grass, supplemented balance (see Acid-Forming Diet, day, your intake of alkalizing
with fresh and dried figs, barley page 2). food will reverse this process
flour, and small amounts of corn. and when there is an excess, the
Metabolic diet is at best fiddling
. . . As we expected, the eggs kidneys excrete that too.
with the deckchairs on the
contained substantial amounts of If the test results show
Titanic. Get the basics right first
omega-3 fatty acids.” (Ref: 6) continuously acid or alkaline,
– such as steering a disaster-
Salt Intake and Sweat free course like we say! then this suggests that you
Q. We live in a hot country and might have a health problem and
As for Loren Cordain, both he
sweat a lot. Should we be taking and I are on the same page for you should check with your
additional salt? physician.
this topic at least. See “Plant to
A. No! We know that our Meat Ratio”, March 2008. Loss of Taste with Age
ancestral environment, albeit It is a commonplace, yet we
Flavorless Fruit Good?
hot, tropical and sweaty, was should not lose sight of it: as we
Q. There are beautiful looking
low sodium. No salt cellars get older our sense of taste and
strawberries on the market, yet
hanging from the trees there! smell deteriorate. We then run
they have no flavor. Does this
Moreover, we know that that is the danger of boosting the flavor
mean they have no nutrients?
the way we need to be today. with bad condiments like salt
A. Not necessarily. The high and sugar.
When I first went to live in the
color indicates the presence of
tropics the common wisdom was There are two strategies. First,
wondrous micronutrients such as
to take salt tablets, particularly just get used to your food
bioflavonoids.
when going up-country. They tasting blander than it used to
were horrid – the size of horse The strawberries perhaps do not be.
pills – and made me retch. But taste sweet, which is no bad
Second, increase the use of good
just a few months later (and thing. See also “Loss of Taste
spices and herbs. For example,
luckily for my health) the with Age” on this page.
both garlic and lemon juice give
scientific advice reversed this Hints & Tips a salt-like taste without the
“wisdom”. Studies had shown drawbacks of salt itself.
that in acclimatization to the Measuring Acid-Alkali Status
heat, the body reduced the salt Our evolutionary history News Shorts
content of the perspiration. So designed us to consume a diet Plants Preserve Muscle Mass
there was no excessive salt loss. which is neither too acid nor too
On the other hand the terrible alkaline (see Acid-forming Diet
things that an excessive intake and Cancer p. 2). If you eat like
of sodium does to the health are we say, then this will work out
legion. just right. However, you might
like to check it out with a simple
Protein and Metabolic Diet urine test.
Q. Seemingly you and other
experts such as William Wolcott Go to a pharmacy and ask for
(Metabolic Typing) and Dr. “Urine pH test strips”. pH is a Physician and nutrition specialist
Cordain can reach different measure of acidity or alkalinity. Bess Dawson-Hughes at the
conclusions after examining the The strips are just a version of USDA Human Nutrition Research
same anthropologic dietary the litmus paper that you will Center in Boston, Massachusetts
history of humans. For example, have used in elementary science finds that plant foods preserve
I am a protein type and should lessons. They change color muscle mass (Ref: 7).
eat much differently than you according to the degree of “The typical American diet is rich
suggest according to others. acidity or alkalinity. in protein, cereal grains, dairy
A. I don’t hold much with the Follow the instructions on the and other acid-producing foods.
metabolic diet. I don’t see our box and test yourself on several An over-acid diet triggers a
ancient ancestors figuring out occasions per day for several muscle-wasting response,” says
their metabolism before deciding days. Hughes.
to eat a caterpillar rather than a The first test after waking up will Volunteers whose diets were
baobab fruit. probably show acid. This is high in alkaline fruits and
We are all still the same basic normal. Then throughout the day vegetables could expect to have
engine under the hood. (See the urine will go into neutral and 3.6 more pounds of lean tissue
then into alkalinity. This is good.
1 Dairy Products, Deadly Harvest, Page 5 Dietary Fish Oil for Hens Affects the 8 Am J Gastroenterol. 2008
127 Fatty Acid Composition of Egg Yolk Mar;103(3):555-61. Epub 2007 Nov 6.
Phospholipids and Gives a Valuable Carbohydrate consumption and
2 The Immature or Baby Digestive
Food with an Ideal Balance of n-6 and esophageal cancer: an ecological
System, Deadly Harvest, Page 119
n-3 Essential Fatty Acids for Human assessment. Thompson CL, Khiani V,
3 Future Oncol. 2005 Dec;1(6):779-86. Nutrition. J. Oleo Sci. 50, 797-803 Chak A, Berger NA, Li L.
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6 Simopoulos, A.P., and N. Salem Jr. “n-3 (2008) 62, 682–685;
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4 Clin Exp Metastasis. 1997 Greek Chickens.” N Engl J Med 321:20 published online 16 May 2007; Effects
Jul;15(4):382-92. Breast cancer cells (1989): 1412 of a short-term intervention with a
have a high capacity to acidify Paleolithic diet in healthy volunteers; M
7 Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Mar;87(3):662-5.
extracellular milieu by a dual Österdahl, T Kocturk, A Koochek and P
Alkaline diets favor lean tissue mass in
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