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How to be a skeptical health consumer and avoid bad health advice

Tuesday, February 08, 2005
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: natural health, health news, health advice


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When it comes to the world of health and wellness, there are thousands of sources of information from which you can get your news and commentary. There are so many sources, in fact, that most people are confused about which sources they should believe. They wonder, "Who should I listen to?" And by default they end up listening primarily to whatever person or group appears to have the most authority.

But in an attempt to cut through all of the noise about health, wellness and medicine, I offer two simple guidelines that any person can use to determine who they should be listening to when it comes to health, disease, nutrition, medicine and other similar topics. The first rule is: never believe any organization that gains money or power from the proliferation of chronic disease.

In other words, don't listen to an organization that profits from the proliferation of disease. This would include all pharmaceutical companies, of course, and even national disease organizations such as the American Heart Association, which receives millions of dollars in funding each year from pharmaceutical companies. Why shouldn't you listen to these organizations? Because they have a clear conflict of interest. It is obviously in the interest of pharmaceutical companies to have more customers, and the way they have more customers is to find more and more people with diseases (or to redefine "disease" so that suddenly more people are diagnosed with something). If you get your health information from a company that profits from disease and loses profits when people get healthy, you're very unlikely to hear information from them that's going to make you healthier. It's not a grand conspiracy, it's simply aggressive marketing on the part of the pharmaceutical companies.

So by applying the first rule here, you would avoid getting health information from the vast majority of traditional sources. Most national disease institutions, societies and organizations are biased because they thrive on the proliferation of disease. Even if they don't gain money from disease, they gain power from it. In other words, if we didn't have cancer in this country, how powerful and influential would the American Cancer Society actually be? They would lose their power if people suddenly became healthy and cancer-free. Again, it doesn't mean that these organizations are evil or that the people working there are bad people; they believe they're doing important work, they believe they're searching for a cure. What they don't realize is that the cure for cancer already exists, and it is found in each and every human body. Your body already knows how to cure cancer, and it has done it thousands of times in your lifetime. There's no need to keep searching for new cures, what we need to do is make people aware of the existing cures and prevention strategies available right now. And if that effort were successful, the American Cancer Society would no longer have any real purpose.

Getting your health information from an organization that depends on the existence of disease simply isn't credible. There's a whole lot of quackery going on in the world of conventional medicine, where diseases are routinely invented, hyped and "solved" by prescription drugs that are entirely unnecessary.

Let's move on to the second rule about who you should listen to in terms of health and wellness. This rule says: Don't listen to anyone who isn't themselves demonstrating a high degree of health. It simply doesn't make sense to receive advice about wellness, health and disease prevention from an individual who is diseased, overweight or unhealthy, regardless of what educational background they might have.

I've mentioned this with some frequency on this site, and it's worth repeating. You wouldn't take scuba diving lessons from an instructor who couldn't swim. You wouldn't try to learn the German language from a person who couldn't speak German. So why on earth would you try to learn how to be healthy from a person who isn't healthy? And yet, that's what happens every single day in America -- people go visit their doctors in the hopes that somehow this doctor, who isn't healthy, can teach them how to be healthy. Stupid, huh?

It's a ridiculous idea, because health isn't just an intellectual exercise. Good health is something that a person must experience before they're qualified to understand it or talk about it. Good health is a journey, and if you haven't been on that journey yourself, you don't know what it takes.

When you're looking for advice on health, wellness, nutrition and how to avoid chronic disease, make sure you're getting that information from a person who checks out in terms of his or her own health. There are many MDs who are quite healthy; one of my favorites is Dr. Gary Null, author of dozens of books on health, wellness and natural medicine. I admire Gary Null because he is healthy himself. He obviously lives what he teaches, and that creates credibility. To me, his state of health means far more than any medical degree. A medical degree, after all, only tests certain book knowledge about anatomy, diseases, diagnostics and so on.

(Medical schools will literally award medical degrees to obese, diabetic individuals who smoke cigarettes and eat junk foods! And they're legally allowed to give YOU medical advice while a healthy, unlicensed naturopath gets thrown in jail for advising you to eat healing foods and herbs! That's the state of organized medicine today: the most diseased people are still in charge and are the only ones allowed to practice medicine by law.)

You may also find other traditionally educated doctors who are in a high state of health, and when you do find those doctors, you will discover that they tend to explore way beyond what they've been taught in medical school. They will typically have a much deeper understanding of nutrition and the relationships between foods and health. Those are the doctors you want to seek out in your own quest for health and wellness.

So those are the two rules: 1) be a skeptical consumer and don't trust information from organizations that gain profit or power from the proliferation of disease, and 2) don't trust health information from people who aren't healthy.

Being healthy doesn't have to be all that complicated, after all. By applying these two rules, you can weed out perhaps 90% of all the bad health advice out there (like the absurd Food Guide Pyramid constructed by the USDA in order to sell more agricultural products) and educate yourself with the remaining 10%. In short order, you'll be healthier than 90% of the population -- the same 90% that still listen to the advice of their doctor and believe everything they hear in televised drug ads, by the way.


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.

Click here to read a more detailed bio on Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, at HealthRanger.com.

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