At 07:07 AM 07/15/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Possum Hunter wrote:
>
>> Now I would like to ask him this same question and another one. Why did I,
>> on his diet, GAIN 15 pounds and why did my blood pressure go up from 130/90
>> to 145/105 at rest?
>
>Or maybe you should ask Dr. Andrew Weil.  My daughter called me
>in the other day to see him on some television show.  There he
>was preparing some soy-based lowfat treat, but the guy is as fat
>as Santa Claus.  Now, it's not for me to cast aspersions, given
>my own adiposity, even on Neanderthin, but then I'm not appearing
>on television advising people to do as I do.  If I did so, people
>would have every right to scoff.  Why don't they scoff at Weil?
>
>Todd Moody
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        Weil talks out of both sides of his neck. He claims that health does not
come from a pill yet he contradicts this when he simply replaces a pill
containing a pharmaceutical company's "drug" mix with a "natural"
supplement or other extract. It's the same philosophy. He says to honor the
body's innate wisdom yet he tries to make the reader/viewer think that
M.D.'s are the ones holding the key to that inner wisdom through a supplement.
        He is a plagiarist stealing directly from the Green Books which were
written by a chiropractor named B.J. Palmer 50-90 years ago. Though he
steals the philosophy for some of his works he distorts it so he and others
in the medical profession can retain control over the health care systems
in this country(which we all know is actually sick care).
        I think if you were to measure his blood pressure and the like you would
find that he is probably contributing to his own demise if he follows his
own advice.

Dave