Another Idiot Named Sears
- Roger Mason
Al Sears writes a natural health newsletter called “Health Confidential
for Men” for which you pay $49.95 a year. He is not related to Barry Sears
who wrote the series of books on the Zone Diet (please see “Don’t Enter
This Zone” in our library), but is even stupider than Barry. And that
isn’t easy at all.
Why people would pay good money to get asinine advice like this is the big
question.
He co-authored two of the worst “natural health” books ever written-
The T-Factor and The 21st Century Man’s Guide to Prostate Health.
He wrote The Doctor’s Heart Cure which may be the worst book ever
written on heart health. He says cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease,
you don’t need to keep your cholesterol under 200, cholesterol just
doesn’t matter, fat doesn’t make you fat, you only need six (6) minutes of
exercise a day, “a low-fat diet is unnatural”, “being a vegetarian could
be threatening to your heart health”, and to use useless l-arginine for a
healthier heart.
He advises you to, “Eat the foods you love.” He tells you to enjoy your
meat- it’s good for you. “Eat steak, pork, chicken, turkey and eggs. Eat
your steak and eggs whenever you want.” He tells you to “Enjoy your beer,
wine and scotch”- they have “health benefits”. He wants you to, “Enjoy
your cigars” and pipes as well. He wants you to, “Savor that coffee.” He
also lets you know, “Even chocolate is O.K.” You think your poor old
author took more cheap drugs late at night and made up all this silliness
don’t you? You don’t really believe a medical doctor could say such stupid
things do you? Well those are quotes right from his websites. Isn’t that
great folks? Now you can eat all the beef, veal, pork, lamb, eggs,
chicken, duck, and turkey you want. You can drink beer, wine and scotch.
You can smoke cigars and pipes. You can go to Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts
for a caffeine fix. You can even eat chocolate. That’s wonderful! All
these years so many of us have missed out on all this great fun and now he
enlightens us. Thank God for Al Sears! We can really enjoy life now doing
everything we want to do.
He lets you know that vegetarian diets aren’t healthy. He hates whole
grains and loves the late (who died of a heart attack after following his
own advice) Robert Atkins. High carbohydrate diets are “dangerous.”
“Carbohydrates are converted to sugar in the body, and can cause high
insulin.” He tells you not to bother eating tasteless salads and
vegetables. Soy burgers are “dangerous”. He explains that soy products are
“high in estrogen”, even though plants do not contain any hormones; only
animals have hormones. Soy foods cause “accelerated brain ageing.” Funny
that billions of Asians for thousands of years have far less disease rates
than Europeans eating grains, vegetables and soy foods.
He claims testosterone is a Magic Hormone that will even cure erectile
dysfunction. Studies around the world show consistently that erectile
dysfunction (ED) is not due to testosterone deficiency but rather to poor
general health and psychological factors. Testosterone supplementation for
hypogonadal men does have dramatic benefits but only about ten per cent
(10%) of men with ED improve their sexual performance. He knows very
little about testosterone and claims you should buy his over-the-counter
supplement with useless Tribulus and illegal androstenedione. Hopefully he
has quit selling this or the federal authorities will put him in prison
for selling illegal steroids. Please read “Second Thoughts on
Androstenedione” in our library to see why androstenedione and its analogs
(like androstenediol) do not work at all in many men, and stop working in
all men after a period of time. He doesn’t understand that the ONLY way to
safely and effectively raise testosterone is to use real, prescription
natural testosterone sublingually or transdermally.
There is no shortage of idiots who write newsletters, but why in the world
do people pay good money to read babble like this?
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