I've read 70+ books in the last four years on diet, nutrition, food intolerance, gluten intolerance, autoimmune disease and diet, paleo diet, and related medical and nutritional issues. And literally thousands of online medical abstracts and articles. Geoff Bond's book "Deadly Harvest" is the best and most comprehensive overall resource to date.
Ultimately the weight of everything that I've read points toward Bond's conclusions as to the foods to eat, fresh greens, vegetables, fruits and selected fish and meat in close to a wild state. And the foods to avoid, wheat, dairy, grains, legumes, perhaps nightshade vegetables, lectin containing foods. But nobody else pulls it all together as well in one volume, the rationale and the practice.
Anyone struggling with excess weight, or hard to resolve chronic health problems, should consider acquiring this book and adopting the practices advocated, at least for a strict trial period of several months. This includes those with gastrointestinal problems, autoimmune diseases including lupus or multiple sclerosis, diabetes, depression, anxiety, acne,osteoporosis and many others.
As I learned these principles the hard way by drawing on numerous sources, and adopted them, I gained many concrete health benefits and overcame nagging medical problems. I lost 35 excess lbs four years ago with no trouble, easily achieving my ideal weight, and have not had any tendency to gain any of the excess weight back. My cholesterol levels and blood pressure improved markedly. Gastrointestinal problems disappeared. Energy and clarity of mind increased. Now virtually all the useful principles that I had to draw on so many sources to acquire are available in one comprehensive source, Geoff Bond's book, Deadly Harvest.
Even if the author had stopped at dietary issues and the rationales for them, the book would have been invaluable. But he goes on to explore other issues of lifestyle, community, and rites of passage that may be critical to our mental health and happiness. Bond asks crucial questions that almost nobody else is asking: "What is the environment our human bodies and minds are really made for?" "Why?" "How can we best approximate that environment in the 21st Century?" And, "What physical and mental health, and happiness and satisfaction, can we gain?"
A health educator wrote of long experience in working with people dealing with chronic health problems: Twenty percent of people are not willing to do anything to resolve their health problems. Sixty percent are willing to let their doctors do the work if not much is required of the patient. Only twenty percent are willing to do whatever it takes, themselves, to get well and achieve optimum health and well being. This book is written for the latter one out of five. And for anyone willing to inquire, plan, and work to avoid problems in the first place.
