88,000 people every day go to www.mercola.com to be misguided about natural health. What a mistake! This is one of the most popular websites in the world. Please go there if you need a good laugh for free. Here are five planks in his natural health platform:

Folks, this is a guaranteed road to sickness and early death. This is just another ketogenic Atkins clone who advocates the "Paleolithic Diet". These people love the word "carbohydrates" or "carbs". Actually, the words "carbohydrate" and “carb” are meaningless terms that refers equally to both brown rice and white sugar, Twinkies and oatmeal, or chocolate candy and whole grain bread. How does that make sense? What do wholegrains have in common with simple sugars?

According to Mercola and his friends, there is no difference between eating a bowl of brown rice and eating a bowl of white sugar, because they are all "carbohydrates". This is patently ridicu-lous. If people like Atkins, Mercola, Crayhon, Sears, Eades, Douglass, and Heller can't see the difference between Twinkies and oatmeal, or chocolate candy and whole grain bread they need a new brain.

Anyone who knows anything about nutrition realizes that fat contains about twice the calories of protein or carbohydrates. It is FAT that makes you fat! It isn't food that makes you fat- it is FAT that makes you fat. Stevie Wonder can see that much. Read any of the books by Susan Pow-ter, Neal Barnard, Gary Null, Robert (or Nathan) Pritikin, Terry Shintani, Michio Kushi, or Dean Ornish on low-fat eating. You can eat all you want and be slim and healthy all your life if you eat a low-fat diet and avoid meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products.

A whole grain, low-fat diet is the basis of your good health and long life. People who eat a bal-anced whole grain based diet can literally avoid cancer, diabetes, heart/artery disease, and other such epidemic conditions. What more proof do you need? A whole grain based diet keeps you slim while maintaining low insulin and blood sugar levels.

Mercola is always warning about the “dangers” of soy food and how deadly they are. This is prima facie absurd. Who are the longest lived people in the world? Rural Asians generally and most all of them eat various soy foods as staples. The longest lived and healthiest people on earth are the Okinawans. They eat an astounding 12% soy foods- more than anyone on earth.

This newsletter has cited published studies that prove you lower your cholesterol, CRP, homocysteine, insulin, and blood sugar, and blood pressure levels with a low-fat, whole foods diet based on whole grains, beans, and vegetable. We’ve also cited studies that prove saturated animal fat is a major cause of obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes. Most all diabetics are overweight from eating too much meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products. Please read my books The Natural Diabetes Cure and Lower Blood Pressure Without Drugs. In volume 38 (2000) of the journal Nutrition and Cancer, doctors at the U of CA fed women an unlimited whole grain, low-fat diet, and their insulin levels fell an amazing 63% in only THREE WEEKS!!!! Notice that is 63%. Their blood sugar levels also fell dramatically- in only three weeks. They ate all they wanted 24 hours a day and lost weight. There are lots of such published studies, yet dopes like Mercola tell you eating whole grains raises your insulin and blood sugar levels and makes you fat.

Southern Chinese use rice as a staple and Northern Chinese use wheat as a staple. They have SEVENTEEN TIMES LESS HEART AND ARTERY DISEASE than we do. CHD is the biggest killer of all by far, and they have seventeen times less than us. Migration studies prove this is due to their diet and lifestyle. 98% of the wheat eaten in the U.S. is nutritionless refined white flour. Only 1% of the U.S. diet is whole grains and that is mostly all oatmeal and whole wheat bread.

Eating more meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products is a guaranteed way to raise your cholesterol and blood pressure so you’ll fall over of a heart attack or stroke, get more cancer, succumb to dia-betes, feel sickly, and die early. The American public hogs down an amazing 42% fat calories which is five times what they need. The hog down five times the fat they need- 500%! Almost half their calorie intake is from fat! Most all of these are saturated artery-clogging animal fats. These only come from meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products. Americans have the highest can-cer, heart/artery disease, and diabetes rates in the world. We eat twice the calories we need and twice the protein we need. We are overfed and undernourished.

Ironically, Mercola has written two good books- The Great Bird Flu Hoax and Sweet Deception. The first exposes the bird flu fraud, and the second exposes sucralose for the poison it is. We have been saying these things for years now. He is also a good libertarian and supports Ron Paul and other libertarian issues. He warns about simple sugars, refined grains, and hydrogenated oils.

It's men like this who give natural health a bad name. People who take his advice only get sicker and then say, "Natural health doesn't work". Why is Mercola so popular? Because he tells people what they want to hear, rather than what they need to hear. The secret to success is to tell peop-le what they want to hear. Robert Atkins was the most popular author of diet books in history- until he fell over dead at 72 from following his own asinine advice. Mercola will fall over dead prematurely from doing the same thing. Remember you heard that here first folks.Click here to return to the article library.