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Natural Eating : Eating in Harmony with Our Genetic Programming

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There is a lot of information about nutrition and proper diet on the market and I find it all very confusing and contradictory. Natural Eating, it seems, is the culmination of Geoff Bond's entire life's work studying how peoples all over the world eat and stay healthy.

When I put into practice just one of the suggestions, I lost 5 pounds. Weight loss was not my aim, but I suppose the body just starts letting go of excess when it is getting fed properly. When I put into place 5 or 6 principles, I lost another 5 pounds, and started waking up earlier naturally. I no longer craved food, I had a breakthrough in my hypoglycemia and I felt as though I was working with the rhythms of my body instead of always fighting against.

I think most importantly, the author gives you the history/foundation/science of his findings based on years of travel all over the world, studying primitive and modern cultures in thriving and ailing countries. In a nutshell, he studies the way the human being is built (shape of teeth, hands, digestive system) and derives what eating patterns fit us as a species. It's fascinating to consider that we are built to eat fruit partly because our hands are built to pick a piece from the tree, our teeth are shaped to cut through a carrot and so forth. The information is sound and useful. The recipe suggestions are excellent. The lists of foods are organized and easy to put into your kitchen immediately.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book. It has altered the way I fuel my body.

The work of Geoff Bond stands head and shoulders above any other work I have read on the subject of proper diet. The book is incredible well researched, and very well written. More than that it contains cutting edge information that can literally save one's life. Lose weight, gain energy, enjoy eating more, live a longer and healthier life. This one is a must read!

Since being diagnosed with Epilepsy 6 years ago I have devoted much of my spare time reading everything I can about health and our bodies in hopes of finding a cure for my disorder. As I would read these books, scientific abstracts, articles ranging from old folk remedies to the latest new age promises, a voice inside kept telling me to go back to the beginning. Back to the very basics of life. Before there were doctors and drug companies. Before there were fast food restaurants and big food companies. To rediscover what my body is and how it works. Look at myself as the animal as I am. And as that animal, what do I need to survive. But where do I start. The answer was to read Geoff Bond's book "Natural Eating". His book took me back to the very beginning. Within those 234 pages I learned about the evolution of our species in terms of our diet and our health. I learned that if we continue to eat the way we are doing soon we may find ourselves on the endangered species list. And for myself I learned Natural Eating also means Natural Healing. Thank you Mr. Bond.

I'm reading the book and am really enjoying it. To be honest, I expected it to be just another nutritional book, but instead I'm reading it with great interest. What I hadn't expected was the absolutely interesting account of history and anthropology. The author's expertise and research is enormous. Of course there is admiration on my part, but regardless, I truly find the way of writing fascinating. It will surely inspire me to do more. I hope this book gets properly promoted. I really feel it deserves it.

The Bond Effect is an outstanding combination of natural eating and healthy thinking. How could something so simple go unnoticed for so long? This book can literally change your life -- and the beauty of it is, the methods presented will begin to work instantly! Everyone can use these ideas to enhance their image -- inside and out.

I guess it took a nutritional anthropologist to provide a sensible perspective to what we eat -- even though Mr. Bond is asking me to give up, or greatly cut down, on many things I have always liked!

Relating what is best for us to our "ancient ancestors" who are not that far removed from us generationally, Mr. Bond has touched a chord of logic in my mind. This is not about losing weight, it is about good health, and that makes good sense to me.

Where does Man come from? Are we genetically programmed for a particular way of eating? Only recently have the answers been researched in a scientific way.

This book describes how we know where humans beings originated, the kind of foodstuffs available, and the actual feeding pattern that our ancestors followed.

We now know the right feeding pattern for the human species!

Our bodies today are just the same as they were back then when their bodies had been in harmony with their feeding environment for tens of thousands of generations.

The new foods that have arrived in the diet since that far off time some 50,000 years ago are described. They often disrupt our biochemistry and our digestive system. Diseases due to dietary errors such as cancer, CVD, osteoporosis, allergies and arthritis are explained.

Finally the strategies for emulating this ideal eating pattern in the modern world are explained. By so doing we achieve our genetic potential for health, vitality and long life.

Human beings, of all the creatures, think that they can deny the laws of Nature. By so doing, they drastically undermine their evolutionary foundations.

We are on the slippery slope to self-destruction - and we are speeded on our way by the appalling misinformation and hypocrisy in matters of nutrition.

What kind of bequest are we leaving to future generations? Adults bedridden with degenerative disease and a population of diabetic and obese children?

We hope not. This book is a crusade against the deteriorating health of our populations and a route map for the way out. In broadcasting the simple truth about our nutritional heritage, we can reverse these trends - We can learn how to feed in harmony with the way our bodies were designed to function.

Natural Eating is much more than a book. It is a wonderful way of life that has change my life and the life of my entire family. Since I have read this book, I just eat every day in harmony with my genetic heritage and programming and it works. Great!!!! Thanks a lot to Geoff BOND.

I can honestly say that reading this book has helped me gain an insight into how our bodies use food as fuel and in turn the impacts on health. It is not just a dietary treatise.

A book like this is always going to raise some hackles and send
others into denial. Such a case is an earlier review by Stephen Byrnes. He has fallen into a number of classic errors including that of thinking that, just because milk is right for babies, it is also right for weaned humans.
The reality is that babies have different digestive arrangements, different biochemistry - and different nutritional needs, particularly while they are building brains.

If milk is so marevllous why do we gain weight on it? why do some folk have out and out allergies and cannot assimilate dairy products of any sort? this book at least approaches this scientifically, but is explained in laymans terms. Go ahead, change your life!

Mr. Bond claims to be writing a treatise on "nutritional anthropology" and how our paleolithic ancestors ate. While some of his information is on the mark (eliminate refined sugars, white bread, etc), he lacks a basic understanding of lipids (fats and oils) and his section on Fats/Oils is horrendous and filled with errors. Like Loren Cordain and Boyd Eaton, Bond unjustifiably demonizes saturated fats and makes the outrageous claim that saturated fats cause vitamin F deficiency and that the human body is not designed to eat saturated fats. Hmmmm, considering that human breast milk is over 50% saturated fat, this statement is hard to swallow!

Despite his claim to be teaching a "paleolithic diet," Bond includes such non-paleo foods as legumes and whole grains (in measured amounts), but denounces dairy foods. Why the double-standard??

Lastly, his bibliography is extensive, but he does not have any footnotes to match the references with his claims, making it a poor work in terms of scholarship.

You're better off getting Allan and Lutz' book "Life Without Bread" if you want to learn about "native nutrition."