Dr. Mercola Is Another Dumbbell -Roger Mason

Supposedly 100,000 people every week get the newsletter at www.mercola.com to to learn more about  natural health. What a mistake! Please go there if you need a good laugh for free. Here are four planks in his natural health platform:

• Eating fat does not make you fat.
• A high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet may be dangerous to your health.
• Lower your grains and lower your insulin levels.
• Eat more meat and fat.

 
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". Well, the word "carbohydrate" is a very meaningless term that refers equally to both brown rice and white sugar, Twinkies and oatmeal, or chocolate and whole grain bread. How does that make sense? What does a whole grain have in common with table sugar? 
 
According to people like this, there is no difference between eating a bowl of brown rice and eating a bowl of white sugar, because they are all "carbohydrates" or "carbs." This is patently ridiculous. If people like Atkins, Mercola, Crayhon, Sears, Eades, Douglass, and Heller can't see the difference between Twinkies and oatmeal, or chocolate and whole grain bread they need a new brain. They do warn about refined grains, hydrogenated oils,  and simple sugars. 
 
Anyone who knows anything about nutrition knows 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. Please go read any of the books by Susan Powter, Neal Barnard, Gary Null, Robert (or Nathan) Pritikin, Terry Shintani, Michio Kushi, or Dean Ornish on low fat eating.  
 
A whole grain, low-fat diet is the basis of your good health and long life. People who eat a balanced whole grain based diet can literally cure cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other conditions in only a year. What more proof do you need? If you can cure cancer this way, you can certainly  be slim and have healthy insulin and blood sugar levels. 
 
This column has shown published studies that you lower your insulin levels with whole grains, beans, vegetables and seafood. We've also shown that fat (especially saturated animal fat) is a major cause of insulin resistance and diabetes. Most all diabetics are overweight- from eating too much fat. Please read my The Natural Diabetes Cure.  In volume 38 (2000) of Nutrition and Cancer doctors at the U of CA fed women an unlimited high-complex carbohydrate, 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. And, they ate all they wanted 24 hours a day and lost weight in the process. There are lots of such studies, yet dopes like Mercola tell you eating whole grains raises your insulin levels and makes you fat.  
 
Eating more meat and fat is a guaranteed way to raise your cholesterol, fall over of a heart attack or stroke, get most any kind of cancer, feel sickly and die early. The American public hogs down an amazing 42% fat calories, and most all of these are the saturated animal fats that clog your arteries while fueling the growth of cancer cells.  
 
Why do you think Americans have more cancer than anyone on earth? One of the main reasons is almost half the calories they eat come from FAT.  

 It's people 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 are they so popular? Because they tell people what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. The secret To success is to tell people 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 ketogenic advice.