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Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know about
Presents the author's thesis that processed foods and drugs approved by the FDA can be harmful to consumers' health and offers advice on the use of alternative therapies and natural cures to treat and prevent illnesses and disabilities.
572 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
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Kevin Trudeau
128 books97 followersKevin Trudeau is an American author, salesman, and television personality known for promotion of his books and resulting legal cases involving the US Federal Trade Commission. His ubiquitous late-night infomercials, which promoted unsubstantiated health, diet, and financial advice, earned him a fortune but resulted in civil and criminal penalties for fraud, larceny, and contempt of court.
In the early 1990s, Trudeau was convicted of larceny and credit card fraud. In 2007, he was accused of grossly misrepresenting the contents of his book, The Weight-Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About. In a 2004 settlement, he agreed to pay a $500,000 fine and cease marketing all products except his books, which are protected under the First Amendment. In 2011, he was fined $37.6 million for violating the 2004 settlement, and ordered to post a $2 million bond before engaging in any future infomercial advertising.
In 2013, facing consequences for non-payment of the $37 million judgment, Trudeau filed for bankruptcy protection. His claims of insolvency were challenged by FTC lawyers, who maintained that he was hiding money in shell companies, and cited examples of continued lavish spending, such as $359 for a haircut. In November 2013, Trudeau was convicted of criminal contempt, and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in March 2014. The Chicago Tribune reported in April 2014 that infomercials starring Trudeau and promoting his books continued to air regularly on United States television stations even though he was in jail at the time. Trudeau left federal custody in 2022 after 8 years, after which the FTC continued to pursue the unpaid $37 million fine.
In the early 1990s, Trudeau was convicted of larceny and credit card fraud. In 2007, he was accused of grossly misrepresenting the contents of his book, The Weight-Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About. In a 2004 settlement, he agreed to pay a $500,000 fine and cease marketing all products except his books, which are protected under the First Amendment. In 2011, he was fined $37.6 million for violating the 2004 settlement, and ordered to post a $2 million bond before engaging in any future infomercial advertising.
In 2013, facing consequences for non-payment of the $37 million judgment, Trudeau filed for bankruptcy protection. His claims of insolvency were challenged by FTC lawyers, who maintained that he was hiding money in shell companies, and cited examples of continued lavish spending, such as $359 for a haircut. In November 2013, Trudeau was convicted of criminal contempt, and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in March 2014. The Chicago Tribune reported in April 2014 that infomercials starring Trudeau and promoting his books continued to air regularly on United States television stations even though he was in jail at the time. Trudeau left federal custody in 2022 after 8 years, after which the FTC continued to pursue the unpaid $37 million fine.
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December 12, 2007
Ok, so I know, I'm going to have my PharmD VERY soon, therefore this book should have just reconfirmed everything I already knew and suspected about big pharma and pharmaceutical products and manufacturers, since I've studied all this ad nauseum for the past several years and have determined that I"m getting this degree so that people will listen when I tell them they have better options than drugs.... - but no.
These are BIG shoes to fill, but...THIS IS THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. EVER!! Did he not hire an editor with the billions of dollars he has made scamming the American public? Or any of his other financial scams that landed him time in the big house but still managed to make him a wealthy mogul?
Read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle or Omnivore's Dilemma if you care about what you put in your body. Read the "The Green Pharmacy" if you want to learn about more natural ways to heal your body other than with manufactured drugs. Read books by Gabriel Cousins - raw food will change your life, if you can afford the time and money it takes to prepare and scope it out. Go vegetarian or eat only local free range organically fed grass finished meat. EAT ORGANIC LOCAL PRODUCE. This is NOT rocket science, and I just saved you 3 hours of fist-shaking wrath that this book even got published.
This man doesn't tell you anything useful - he whispers promises in your ear of ACTUALLY telling you...if only you'll buy his next book since it's in there!! I'm going to stop writing this review so that my blood pressure will normalize again.
These are BIG shoes to fill, but...THIS IS THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. EVER!! Did he not hire an editor with the billions of dollars he has made scamming the American public? Or any of his other financial scams that landed him time in the big house but still managed to make him a wealthy mogul?
Read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle or Omnivore's Dilemma if you care about what you put in your body. Read the "The Green Pharmacy" if you want to learn about more natural ways to heal your body other than with manufactured drugs. Read books by Gabriel Cousins - raw food will change your life, if you can afford the time and money it takes to prepare and scope it out. Go vegetarian or eat only local free range organically fed grass finished meat. EAT ORGANIC LOCAL PRODUCE. This is NOT rocket science, and I just saved you 3 hours of fist-shaking wrath that this book even got published.
This man doesn't tell you anything useful - he whispers promises in your ear of ACTUALLY telling you...if only you'll buy his next book since it's in there!! I'm going to stop writing this review so that my blood pressure will normalize again.
November 27, 2007
The author of this book once claimed in one of his informercials that he was 70 years old, when in fact he is only 44, and if you follow his system, you will be as youthful as he is. Kevin Trudeau is a thief and a scam artist who writes fictitious books in order to make a living for himself.
July 10, 2015
I bought this book hoping that it would help me with Migraines. Instead, it gave me one.
Kevin Trudeau is maddeningly repetitive. It's been a while since I read this one, but I recall the 1st quarter of the book sounding like this... I'm paraphrasing here:
"Did you know that there are natural cures for almost every ailment and illness you can think of? Oh yes, there are, but there are people who don't want you to know about them. These people want to keep you sick for their gain. But, let me assure you, there ARE natural cures that are available almost everywhere. AND, I know what these cures are! They are natural cures that can be found in nature, but they don't want you to know that."
...and so on.
He goes on and on about the benefits of the "health care" industry and government keeping people sick, which of course, he says is all for profit. He also makes it abundantly clear that the "they" who want to keep these natural cures under wraps also want to shut him up about them.
Finally, the last part of the book contains an index of illnesses that can be "cured" by the natural ingredients previously alluded to, but Trudeau then negates everything he just went on and on and on about by saying that these cures aren't actually guaranteed to cure anything.
I tend to agree with him on one point, which is that it does benefit pharmaceutical companies and HMOs etc to keep people sick and needing their help, but that is fairly self-evident. If they cure the sick, they lose money. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Anyway, my advice is, if you want to read this one make a trip to the library and pick it up. Don't waste your money on the book.
Kevin Trudeau is maddeningly repetitive. It's been a while since I read this one, but I recall the 1st quarter of the book sounding like this... I'm paraphrasing here:
"Did you know that there are natural cures for almost every ailment and illness you can think of? Oh yes, there are, but there are people who don't want you to know about them. These people want to keep you sick for their gain. But, let me assure you, there ARE natural cures that are available almost everywhere. AND, I know what these cures are! They are natural cures that can be found in nature, but they don't want you to know that."
...and so on.
He goes on and on about the benefits of the "health care" industry and government keeping people sick, which of course, he says is all for profit. He also makes it abundantly clear that the "they" who want to keep these natural cures under wraps also want to shut him up about them.
Finally, the last part of the book contains an index of illnesses that can be "cured" by the natural ingredients previously alluded to, but Trudeau then negates everything he just went on and on and on about by saying that these cures aren't actually guaranteed to cure anything.
I tend to agree with him on one point, which is that it does benefit pharmaceutical companies and HMOs etc to keep people sick and needing their help, but that is fairly self-evident. If they cure the sick, they lose money. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Anyway, my advice is, if you want to read this one make a trip to the library and pick it up. Don't waste your money on the book.
September 30, 2007
Someone gave this book to me, with a recommendation that it was an excellent book, full of great information, blah, blah, blah. No way. This book was full of common sense knowledge and promises of future information if you buy more things this man offers. It was complete and utter bullshit. The book can be summarized in two sentences. "The FDA sucks and they are out to get me (and you). Eat properly, avoid additives and preservatives and you won't feel as bad as you do now." I am, however, astounded at the author's sheer marketing genius. Not many people can make millions saying absolutely nothing. He must have balls of steel.
October 7, 2007
I approached the best selling "Natural Cures 'they' don't want you to know about" with a healthy dose of scepticism. After all, should we really take advice on healthy eating from a convicted fraudster? But I've concluded that Kevin Trudeau is the ideal person to write about the total scam that is the pharmaceutical industry and its packaged food counterpart.
"Natural Cures......" is basically a tirade against the culture of drugs and packaged foods that have taken over the modern world. Trudeau explains how this culture of drugs and snack foods (and some other products) is undoubtedly responsible for making us sick in many ways. He goes on to offer ways to reduce toxins in the body and cure or prevent many diseases.
A lot of what Trudeau teaches us is nothing new for most of us (snack foods have numerous chemicals, GM food loses much of its nutrition, etc.) but he goes to great lengths to make us realise just how serious the problem has become, just how extensive the lobbying and coercion of politicians can be and just how misleading drug or food advertising has become. So many lies and scams are exposed in this publication that there will be at least one revelation for everybody.
After making all this clear, Trudeau goes on to offer tips and ideas - many of them beautifully simple - on leading healthier lifestyle to clear the body of toxins and "never get sick again".
A lot of the advice is superbly simple yet often something we would never think of (Buy organic fruits and make a fruit shake every day, don't buy any product with ingredients you can't pronounce, etc.) and very passionate. Trudeau clearly practises what he preaches and has very extensive knowledge of the industries he discusses.
It's true that some of the author's ideas make him his own worse enemy. Statements such as "Animals never get sick" and "Wearing a magnetic ring will help you eliminate chaos" simply invite his many critics to knock him. But there are so many articulate, practical and genuinely heartfelt arguments and suggestions in this book, I get the impression many critics have based their reviews on their dislike for the writer.
This book did what "Super Size Me" and "Fast Food Nation" failed to do. It made me realise the dangers of my diet (as the aforementioned works also did) but it also gave me the inspiration and impetus to actually make a positive change. I've done two juice fasts and a water fast since I got this book two months ago. I've taken up many of Trudeau's ideas and I feel far better for it.
Highly recommended, if only to see what the fuss over this NY Times bestseller is all about.
"Natural Cures......" is basically a tirade against the culture of drugs and packaged foods that have taken over the modern world. Trudeau explains how this culture of drugs and snack foods (and some other products) is undoubtedly responsible for making us sick in many ways. He goes on to offer ways to reduce toxins in the body and cure or prevent many diseases.
A lot of what Trudeau teaches us is nothing new for most of us (snack foods have numerous chemicals, GM food loses much of its nutrition, etc.) but he goes to great lengths to make us realise just how serious the problem has become, just how extensive the lobbying and coercion of politicians can be and just how misleading drug or food advertising has become. So many lies and scams are exposed in this publication that there will be at least one revelation for everybody.
After making all this clear, Trudeau goes on to offer tips and ideas - many of them beautifully simple - on leading healthier lifestyle to clear the body of toxins and "never get sick again".
A lot of the advice is superbly simple yet often something we would never think of (Buy organic fruits and make a fruit shake every day, don't buy any product with ingredients you can't pronounce, etc.) and very passionate. Trudeau clearly practises what he preaches and has very extensive knowledge of the industries he discusses.
It's true that some of the author's ideas make him his own worse enemy. Statements such as "Animals never get sick" and "Wearing a magnetic ring will help you eliminate chaos" simply invite his many critics to knock him. But there are so many articulate, practical and genuinely heartfelt arguments and suggestions in this book, I get the impression many critics have based their reviews on their dislike for the writer.
This book did what "Super Size Me" and "Fast Food Nation" failed to do. It made me realise the dangers of my diet (as the aforementioned works also did) but it also gave me the inspiration and impetus to actually make a positive change. I've done two juice fasts and a water fast since I got this book two months ago. I've taken up many of Trudeau's ideas and I feel far better for it.
Highly recommended, if only to see what the fuss over this NY Times bestseller is all about.
May 27, 2008
Groundless propaganda! It's all a fear/conspiracy based "they" are after you with blatantly erroneous tidbits of examples like "animals never get cancer, diabetes...". He is not a scientist, and alternates between bashing the scientific process for not being able to cure anything and then for not studying the "miracle cures" that he thinks the evil medical community should be using.
While I do agree that the system is flawed, I think his rabble-rousing attempts to incite feelings of anger and oppression in the masses (without educating them) is the poorest approach anyone can take.
While I do agree that the system is flawed, I think his rabble-rousing attempts to incite feelings of anger and oppression in the masses (without educating them) is the poorest approach anyone can take.
September 8, 2007
This book is not for everyone, it is not for close minded people.
It is not for people who are afraid of the truth!
Our food IS poisoned and the Pharmaceutical companies are also poisoning us!
The author does know what he is talking about.
It is easy to read so that everyone can understand it.
I was lucky to be given a second copy and because I have one already I gave it to a neighbor, who was happy to get it and be better informed.
The FDA only has to list a 'few' ingrediants, they leave many others out! Many that are put in our food to make us want to eat more, to give us health problems and make us fatter than we are!
YES: Read this book IF your ready for the TRUTH...
NO: do not read if you have a closed mind and cannot accpet the truth!
It is not for people who are afraid of the truth!
Our food IS poisoned and the Pharmaceutical companies are also poisoning us!
The author does know what he is talking about.
It is easy to read so that everyone can understand it.
I was lucky to be given a second copy and because I have one already I gave it to a neighbor, who was happy to get it and be better informed.
The FDA only has to list a 'few' ingrediants, they leave many others out! Many that are put in our food to make us want to eat more, to give us health problems and make us fatter than we are!
YES: Read this book IF your ready for the TRUTH...
NO: do not read if you have a closed mind and cannot accpet the truth!
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September 8, 2007This is a very boring book that is mostly repeated over and over again and again..It is very poorly written and does not contain anything that would ever be cosidered secret....It is useless in my opinion..
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August 23, 2007Medical advice from a used car salesman? If people want to kill themselves a gun to the head is much faster.
October 31, 2007
did you know that jumping on a mini-tramp everyday can cure most, if not all, medical problems? WOW!
ok, there's more to this book than that - but I didn't find much value in any of it.
ok, there's more to this book than that - but I didn't find much value in any of it.
February 5, 2008
This man is a scam artist.
October 18, 2007
The biggest pile of poo I have encountered in a long time - just a long unsubstatiated rant, really badly written. Don't read it, don't touch it, WALK AWAY!
March 26, 2008
A couple of positives about the book...it talks about the intrusion of drug companies on our health and offers some pretty basic/common sense ideas to improve one's health. The negatives - first the book is extremely repetitive. It could have been eloquently summed up in a five page essay. Secondly, although it promises to reveal the natural cures, one quickly finds out that they need to go to his website and pay for this information. I suggest everyone does what I did, borrow this book from the library then research more books on natural healing to find the cures for free.
March 7, 2008
3.5 actually...This book is what I would call a good catalyst or starter. It really opens up your eyes to the bigger picture, but it fails to walk you through the door.
It's a must read, but you can't stop there once you do. Afterwards, you should check out "The Sunfood Diet Success System" or "Living on Live Food" or anything by Jewel Pookrum, David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, basically stuff that will fill the void that this book will create in you if you haven't heard these concepts and truths before.
I'm very glad that he wrote it, because it's necessary, and as R&W said below, he is the man for the job. A alike, B alike...takes one to know one...and since he was a 'fraudster' it seems that helps him to call out all of bullshit very very well.
As far as the style..yeah, the editing is awful, and the actual list of "cures" wasn't really as pervasive as the book leads you to believe, but that's mainly because the entire BOOK is a cure. Because all change begins in the mind first, and once you see that the government and big business and pharm companies are not looking out for your best interest, it places that responsibility squarely on you. A lot of people can't handle that or feel lost...that's also why I suggest reading more positive and fulfilling books as follow-ups.
- Project Mayhem
It's a must read, but you can't stop there once you do. Afterwards, you should check out "The Sunfood Diet Success System" or "Living on Live Food" or anything by Jewel Pookrum, David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, basically stuff that will fill the void that this book will create in you if you haven't heard these concepts and truths before.
I'm very glad that he wrote it, because it's necessary, and as R&W said below, he is the man for the job. A alike, B alike...takes one to know one...and since he was a 'fraudster' it seems that helps him to call out all of bullshit very very well.
As far as the style..yeah, the editing is awful, and the actual list of "cures" wasn't really as pervasive as the book leads you to believe, but that's mainly because the entire BOOK is a cure. Because all change begins in the mind first, and once you see that the government and big business and pharm companies are not looking out for your best interest, it places that responsibility squarely on you. A lot of people can't handle that or feel lost...that's also why I suggest reading more positive and fulfilling books as follow-ups.
- Project Mayhem
March 13, 2008
I have a love/hate relationship with this book. The author definitely shed some light on nutrition and the health care industry... beneficial information! I would recommend it to all Americans. Taking a moment to pause and look at the health care industry and the FDA... it's all very diabolical and made me extremely angry. I also found it very disheartening that in each section, he gives you a little bit of info and advises you to go to his website for more info. When you go to his website, you have to pay to become a member. I certainly don't mind paying $10.00, but I kind of felt ripped off. My godmother advised "Read this book... but, remember, it's not the Bible."
November 13, 2013
New information on this author behaving badly. I sincerely hope this isn't against the new GR TOS because it is relevant to the claims in his books and, well, ...it sure is sweet:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2...
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/11...
Older link on charlatanism: http://www.infomercialwatch.org/tran/...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2...
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/11...
Older link on charlatanism: http://www.infomercialwatch.org/tran/...
June 25, 2007
This is another book that is a must read for everyone. This book has made me more aware of how we are really being lied to and poisoned as a society. Trudeau's book was a catlylst for major change in my life and inspired me to do more research into my own health and well being.
July 29, 2008
I liked this book. The information is good but I hated how if you "really want the information" you have to join and pay online to get the "actual" information. It's very repetitive and slams drug companies and doctors pretty well.
August 20, 2016
This book sickened me -not with what it said but with what it was trying to do by saying it. The book is basically a sales pitch for readers to become "private" members of the author's website. The site is constantly mentioned throughout the book and even has a full chapter dedicated to it. The stats the authors gives are blatantly BS with one being that it is expected that most americans will ingest 1000 pounds of over the counter medications over a twenty year period. That's 50 pounds a year or almost four pounds a months! The author could have at least tried to make the stat seem realistic.
As for the cures, there is a small chapter in the 550 page book that mentions cures, but mainly the book repeats over and over (in hoped that it would eventually be thought true) the conspiracy theories associated with the FDA, politicians and the food and drug industry, with constant references to the three groups coming after him, and he even hints that he was a Top Secret Agent for the government!
The book certainly appears to be a giant con job working on fear to get monthly subscribers to his website that offers all the info that he says he is not allowed to mention in the book. Though he maybe on with some things, the level he tries to take them to is pathetic and the number of times he repeats his unsubstantiated stories and statistics (all the while calling out other organizations on theirs) is mind blowing. You would think he would have stopped after a half dozen repeats, but nope, he keeps going.
With all these stories and claims, you would think that there would be a substantial bibliography but there isn't one. The last few pages of the book are positive reviews.
This book should be classified as fiction.
I'm left wondering how many people have died trying to follow his advice of avoiding doctors who prescribe drugs. I know if I did two years ago, I'd be fertilizer now.
As for the cures, there is a small chapter in the 550 page book that mentions cures, but mainly the book repeats over and over (in hoped that it would eventually be thought true) the conspiracy theories associated with the FDA, politicians and the food and drug industry, with constant references to the three groups coming after him, and he even hints that he was a Top Secret Agent for the government!
The book certainly appears to be a giant con job working on fear to get monthly subscribers to his website that offers all the info that he says he is not allowed to mention in the book. Though he maybe on with some things, the level he tries to take them to is pathetic and the number of times he repeats his unsubstantiated stories and statistics (all the while calling out other organizations on theirs) is mind blowing. You would think he would have stopped after a half dozen repeats, but nope, he keeps going.
With all these stories and claims, you would think that there would be a substantial bibliography but there isn't one. The last few pages of the book are positive reviews.
This book should be classified as fiction.
I'm left wondering how many people have died trying to follow his advice of avoiding doctors who prescribe drugs. I know if I did two years ago, I'd be fertilizer now.
December 4, 2007
I am completely baffled as to why any responsible publisher would put out this complete and utter piece of rubbish.
December 10, 2009
Bull Shit!!!
I know it's not really a shocker... judging a book by its cover and all... but it's even worse than that. All claims - granted, he states at the beginning that it's all opinion - with nothing backing up anything. Nothing, no where, it's all rhetorical questions and implication, to "show" the reader that the medical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as the FDA, are keeping us sick for the profit of it all. His annoying repetitious conclusion is that "It's All About the Money!" Which may or may not be entirely true.
BUT, regardless, I got bored, and flipped to the part with the natural cures. In it, he says that he has been threatened and forced to eliminate this chapter because it would threaten those industries' profit making. Blah blah blah, whining about free speech. However! You can find all the information on his website.
I tossed away the book in disgust, knowing it's going to cost to find out these natural cures. So, of course, I checked out the website, to discover the facts of the matter, rather than just ask myself more rhetorical questions. And, sure enough, it's $10/month OR a $1000 lifetime membership (ooh, what a steal, lifetime health for only $1000!) to find out how to naturally heal yourself... Because, you guessed it, my friends, Mr. It's All About the Money is shocker of all shockers ALL ABOUT THE MONEY! Loser.
I know it's not really a shocker... judging a book by its cover and all... but it's even worse than that. All claims - granted, he states at the beginning that it's all opinion - with nothing backing up anything. Nothing, no where, it's all rhetorical questions and implication, to "show" the reader that the medical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as the FDA, are keeping us sick for the profit of it all. His annoying repetitious conclusion is that "It's All About the Money!" Which may or may not be entirely true.
BUT, regardless, I got bored, and flipped to the part with the natural cures. In it, he says that he has been threatened and forced to eliminate this chapter because it would threaten those industries' profit making. Blah blah blah, whining about free speech. However! You can find all the information on his website.
I tossed away the book in disgust, knowing it's going to cost to find out these natural cures. So, of course, I checked out the website, to discover the facts of the matter, rather than just ask myself more rhetorical questions. And, sure enough, it's $10/month OR a $1000 lifetime membership (ooh, what a steal, lifetime health for only $1000!) to find out how to naturally heal yourself... Because, you guessed it, my friends, Mr. It's All About the Money is shocker of all shockers ALL ABOUT THE MONEY! Loser.
July 16, 2007
I don't like to spend money on a book unless I know for sure that I will love it. I requested it from the library and spent four hours reading a book that basically told me that the government and the drug companies all want us to be sick because drugs do not treat the root causes of an illness, but rather the symptoms.
My main disappointment was reading thoughout the book that I would have to join his website [http://www.naturalcures.com] in order to get the needed information on these natural cures.
My main disappointment was reading thoughout the book that I would have to join his website [http://www.naturalcures.com] in order to get the needed information on these natural cures.
January 25, 2009
I was given this book as a present and I groaned when I opened it, knowing full well that the guy comes across as a crackpot on TV. How could any of this stuff be true?
However, I read very carefully the documented story towards the end of his efforts to market a healthy bread for weight loss...and I was horrified. I even verified elswhere that this court battle actually occurred.. and it did! One more reason why something being stamped by the FDA means so very little in regards to safety. Read this section before you read anything else and you can't help but beimpressed.
Now I won't go so far as to say I am a complete convert: you have to subscribe to the website and frankly there's just not enough information there to keep me going back and paying once a month, but Trudeau is spot on with his accusations that we have been poisoning ourselves in this country. While we were once a great country with some great nutritious food products, now we are at the mercy of corporations trying to get too many crops out of a field with some dangerous fertilizer!
Say what you will, but I changed my diet in several ways, including going to organic produce when I could. I lost more than 15 lbs that I had given up on and my stress level decreased. My doctor asked me what I was doing differently when my blood work improved. When I told her, she smiled and agreed with me. Now when I bring her an article, we discuss it and sometimes she tells me about things that work.
The bottom line is that everything can't work for everyone, but this book is a lot better at helping people get lots healthier than they were.. especially if anyone was like me and not caring a lot about what I ate. It's not a cookbook,but it does giveyou things to explore and I, for one, am grateful.
However, I read very carefully the documented story towards the end of his efforts to market a healthy bread for weight loss...and I was horrified. I even verified elswhere that this court battle actually occurred.. and it did! One more reason why something being stamped by the FDA means so very little in regards to safety. Read this section before you read anything else and you can't help but beimpressed.
Now I won't go so far as to say I am a complete convert: you have to subscribe to the website and frankly there's just not enough information there to keep me going back and paying once a month, but Trudeau is spot on with his accusations that we have been poisoning ourselves in this country. While we were once a great country with some great nutritious food products, now we are at the mercy of corporations trying to get too many crops out of a field with some dangerous fertilizer!
Say what you will, but I changed my diet in several ways, including going to organic produce when I could. I lost more than 15 lbs that I had given up on and my stress level decreased. My doctor asked me what I was doing differently when my blood work improved. When I told her, she smiled and agreed with me. Now when I bring her an article, we discuss it and sometimes she tells me about things that work.
The bottom line is that everything can't work for everyone, but this book is a lot better at helping people get lots healthier than they were.. especially if anyone was like me and not caring a lot about what I ate. It's not a cookbook,but it does giveyou things to explore and I, for one, am grateful.
January 3, 2012
This is the book that started it all for me back in 2005. It exposes the corruption in government and Big Food, and teaches you how to be a more savvy consumer and steward of your health. Author Kevin Trudeau discusses everything from the common toxic ingredients in our food to natural remedies for a host of diseases and ailments.
Have you ever wondered how the chlorine and fluoride in your tap water are affecting your health? How about hydrogenated oils and trans fats in the food supply? Do you know what the two reasons are that a person becomes ill? These are just a few of the hundreds of nutrition and health questions that are answered in this book.
Kevin Trudeau does an excellent job of giving step-by-step lists that detail how to clean up your diet, lose weight, and naturally detoxify your body. Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About gives you the information you need to overhaul your thinking about health and nutrition. It is filled with actionable information on the hows and whys of reaching your health goals. If you are brand new to learning about how Big Food, Big Pharma, and government are affecting your health by manipulating the food supply, this book is the place for you to start.
Have you ever wondered how the chlorine and fluoride in your tap water are affecting your health? How about hydrogenated oils and trans fats in the food supply? Do you know what the two reasons are that a person becomes ill? These are just a few of the hundreds of nutrition and health questions that are answered in this book.
Kevin Trudeau does an excellent job of giving step-by-step lists that detail how to clean up your diet, lose weight, and naturally detoxify your body. Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About gives you the information you need to overhaul your thinking about health and nutrition. It is filled with actionable information on the hows and whys of reaching your health goals. If you are brand new to learning about how Big Food, Big Pharma, and government are affecting your health by manipulating the food supply, this book is the place for you to start.
August 3, 2011
I feel like an idiot. When I first found a used copy of Kevin Trudeau’s “Natural Cures 'They' Don’t Want You to Know About”, I riffled through the book and quoted Trudeau’s health claims to family for laughs, pointing out how absurd his advice was. I started to read the book, jokingly acting as if I was really into it, and then something happened. Kevin Trudeau actually started making sense to me. I already knew pharmaceutical companies provide incentives for doctors, so is it really such a stretch that they suppress natural cures to promote their prescription drugs? I already knew walking and drinking water was good for you, so maybe his claims about the health benefits of magnets and mini-trampolines are likewise true.
The “Illusion of Truth” effect explains how the brain can be manipulated through repetition; we are more likely to believe statements that we have heard repeated before. Perhaps that explains my embarrassing gullibility regarding Trudeau’s nonsense, especially considering he repeats everything he says endlessly throughout the book, some of his claims iterated thirty times or more. Either way, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Even if you do fall hook, line and sinker for Trudeau’s all-natural bait, a few questionable things about the book should be immediately apparent to anyone. The first is that Trudeau seems to have both delusions of grandeur and just plain delusions: he goes on about how he’s the only guy fighting against the evil government agencies, how the pharmaceutical companies are scared of him revealing their dirty secrets, and at one point compares himself to Rosa Parks and Gandhi. Then, oddly enough, he implies he’s a secret government agent. He also believes in some strange conspiratorial agency, supposedly partially comprised of former Nazis, which is attempting to take control of all the worlds’ vitamins and natural medicines. It’s only mentioned once, but I swear to God it’s in the book.
Trudeau also talks a lot about freedom of speech, and he has a tenuous grasp of the concept at best. He waxes on incessantly about how there is no freedom of speech in the USA and how government agencies are oppressing him. What constitutes this violation of his freedom? Many things, including that certain TV stations won’t advertise his products. So not only does Trudeau’s idea of freedom of speech allow for him to say whatever he wants, but TV stations must also broadcast whatever he wants. I don’t think that’s how the concept works.
Then there is the abundance of typos and misspellings throughout the book, which call into question the professionalism of Trudeau’s venture, but can be easily ignored. Harder to ignore are Trudeau’s sporadic lapses of logic, where he uses the most backwards reasoning to decry modern medicine and support his natural cures. One of Trudeau’s frequent claims is that all chemicals, in any amount, are bad for you. He reasons this by saying that if you drank a cup of the chemicals, you will likely die. If you drink enough water you can also die, but that doesn’t mean water is bad for you. This isn’t sufficient reasoning to declare the tiny bit of fluoride in our drinking water as toxic to the body. Another claim Trudeau makes is that the sun doesn’t cause skin cancer because people in Africa, who don’t use sunscreen, have lower rates of skin cancer. Whether or not this statistic is even true, it doesn’t prove anything. There could be a multitude of reasons for this anomaly. He also says that swimming in a pool is a no-no due to the amounts of chemical in the water, but then says swimming in lakes is just peachy. Really? The lake I live by gets shut down every so often for contamination reasons; do you really think that has less toxic chemicals than my local pool? There are also the strange incidents where Trudeau declares something as solely his own belief, admitting that it’s not backed up by any science or proof or evidence, such as his belief that humans should live to over 100 on average.
However, the biggest flag for any reader should be the nonexistent sources, especially in lieu of the outrageous claims Trudeau consistently makes throughout the book. Most non-fiction books have sources for every fact, or a complete bibliography. If you hand in a college paper with a single fact missing a footnote, you can get a zero. Yet Trudeau’s book consistently makes claim after claim devoid of footnotes, end-notes or any sort of reference. Trudeau’s reasoning for this is that he simply doesn’t have enough room for all his sources: supposedly the sources would take up an extra 500 pages, and in their absence he leaves a truncated list for “Further Reading”. However, if you do want to see his sources, he will gladly send them to you…so long as you become a Member of Trudeau’s “All Natural Cures” website. Oh, and by the way, it costs to become a member of “All Natural Cures”. Trudeau rationalizes this by saying he doesn’t accept ads on his site and he employs staff, plus he has to pay lighting and electricity (yes, he says this). He’s also supposedly poured millions of his own money into the website; I remember making basic websites back in middle school and don’t remember them requiring millions of dollars, but what do I know. If the user fee was just meant to augment or offset a bit of the cost, then that didn’t seem too unreasonable to me. Something like $2 a month or $10-$20 annually would probably be worth fact-checking the information to ensure it’s correct, and you would get to use the other resources available on the site.
Imagine my surprise when I found out after reading the book that the membership cost $9.99 PER MONTH, or, if you want a lifetime membership, $499, plus another $79 to receive his newsletter. So if you even just want to see the sources for some of Kevin Trudeau’s claims and fact-check them, you’re looking at a $50 (assuming it takes you at the very least five months to sift through the 500 pages of material) to $100. And that’s assuming you can even get the proper lists of sources on his site; websites are abound with allegations of Trudeau’s shady practices, including selling memberships for the websites before the “Members” section was even running, and automatically charging the $79 newsletter onto the credit cards of people ordering the book. This is a scam, plain and simple. Not only do you have to pay $30 for the book (thank God I read it for free), you have to shell out another $10 per month to access his website to even fact-check his spurious claims.
The reason it’s easy for Kevin Trudeau to pull you under the wool (or at least me) is that many of his claims are true. Prescription drugs do have side effects and can cause death. Doctors do receive incentives from pharmaceutical companies. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is good for you. You’re metabolism does slow down while you are asleep, so eating before 6:00pm is a great way to lose weight. The problem is that all this truthful information is mixed in with a whole lot of bullshit, and there’s no easy way to separate the two without proper sources, statistics and evidence. Just by doing some cursory Google searches on some of Trudeau’s recommendations, I’ve uncovered that regular colonics (as Trudeau suggests) are believed to not only be unnecessary, but damaging to your body. You simply cannot put any of Trudeau’s advice to good use: he uses faulty logic, doesn’t provide his sources, makes claims not rooted in any science, and doesn’t even try to provide a semi-objective overview of his advice (really, you suggest 15 colonics in 30 days and don’t even mention there are concerns surrounding the procedure).
Please don’t buy the book. And if you do pick it up second-hand, just read it for a laugh and forget about it. But please don’t join the site or get 15 colonics in one month or bounce on a mini-trampoline everyday. Anyone who does needs more help than Trudeau could ever offer.
The “Illusion of Truth” effect explains how the brain can be manipulated through repetition; we are more likely to believe statements that we have heard repeated before. Perhaps that explains my embarrassing gullibility regarding Trudeau’s nonsense, especially considering he repeats everything he says endlessly throughout the book, some of his claims iterated thirty times or more. Either way, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Even if you do fall hook, line and sinker for Trudeau’s all-natural bait, a few questionable things about the book should be immediately apparent to anyone. The first is that Trudeau seems to have both delusions of grandeur and just plain delusions: he goes on about how he’s the only guy fighting against the evil government agencies, how the pharmaceutical companies are scared of him revealing their dirty secrets, and at one point compares himself to Rosa Parks and Gandhi. Then, oddly enough, he implies he’s a secret government agent. He also believes in some strange conspiratorial agency, supposedly partially comprised of former Nazis, which is attempting to take control of all the worlds’ vitamins and natural medicines. It’s only mentioned once, but I swear to God it’s in the book.
Trudeau also talks a lot about freedom of speech, and he has a tenuous grasp of the concept at best. He waxes on incessantly about how there is no freedom of speech in the USA and how government agencies are oppressing him. What constitutes this violation of his freedom? Many things, including that certain TV stations won’t advertise his products. So not only does Trudeau’s idea of freedom of speech allow for him to say whatever he wants, but TV stations must also broadcast whatever he wants. I don’t think that’s how the concept works.
Then there is the abundance of typos and misspellings throughout the book, which call into question the professionalism of Trudeau’s venture, but can be easily ignored. Harder to ignore are Trudeau’s sporadic lapses of logic, where he uses the most backwards reasoning to decry modern medicine and support his natural cures. One of Trudeau’s frequent claims is that all chemicals, in any amount, are bad for you. He reasons this by saying that if you drank a cup of the chemicals, you will likely die. If you drink enough water you can also die, but that doesn’t mean water is bad for you. This isn’t sufficient reasoning to declare the tiny bit of fluoride in our drinking water as toxic to the body. Another claim Trudeau makes is that the sun doesn’t cause skin cancer because people in Africa, who don’t use sunscreen, have lower rates of skin cancer. Whether or not this statistic is even true, it doesn’t prove anything. There could be a multitude of reasons for this anomaly. He also says that swimming in a pool is a no-no due to the amounts of chemical in the water, but then says swimming in lakes is just peachy. Really? The lake I live by gets shut down every so often for contamination reasons; do you really think that has less toxic chemicals than my local pool? There are also the strange incidents where Trudeau declares something as solely his own belief, admitting that it’s not backed up by any science or proof or evidence, such as his belief that humans should live to over 100 on average.
However, the biggest flag for any reader should be the nonexistent sources, especially in lieu of the outrageous claims Trudeau consistently makes throughout the book. Most non-fiction books have sources for every fact, or a complete bibliography. If you hand in a college paper with a single fact missing a footnote, you can get a zero. Yet Trudeau’s book consistently makes claim after claim devoid of footnotes, end-notes or any sort of reference. Trudeau’s reasoning for this is that he simply doesn’t have enough room for all his sources: supposedly the sources would take up an extra 500 pages, and in their absence he leaves a truncated list for “Further Reading”. However, if you do want to see his sources, he will gladly send them to you…so long as you become a Member of Trudeau’s “All Natural Cures” website. Oh, and by the way, it costs to become a member of “All Natural Cures”. Trudeau rationalizes this by saying he doesn’t accept ads on his site and he employs staff, plus he has to pay lighting and electricity (yes, he says this). He’s also supposedly poured millions of his own money into the website; I remember making basic websites back in middle school and don’t remember them requiring millions of dollars, but what do I know. If the user fee was just meant to augment or offset a bit of the cost, then that didn’t seem too unreasonable to me. Something like $2 a month or $10-$20 annually would probably be worth fact-checking the information to ensure it’s correct, and you would get to use the other resources available on the site.
Imagine my surprise when I found out after reading the book that the membership cost $9.99 PER MONTH, or, if you want a lifetime membership, $499, plus another $79 to receive his newsletter. So if you even just want to see the sources for some of Kevin Trudeau’s claims and fact-check them, you’re looking at a $50 (assuming it takes you at the very least five months to sift through the 500 pages of material) to $100. And that’s assuming you can even get the proper lists of sources on his site; websites are abound with allegations of Trudeau’s shady practices, including selling memberships for the websites before the “Members” section was even running, and automatically charging the $79 newsletter onto the credit cards of people ordering the book. This is a scam, plain and simple. Not only do you have to pay $30 for the book (thank God I read it for free), you have to shell out another $10 per month to access his website to even fact-check his spurious claims.
The reason it’s easy for Kevin Trudeau to pull you under the wool (or at least me) is that many of his claims are true. Prescription drugs do have side effects and can cause death. Doctors do receive incentives from pharmaceutical companies. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is good for you. You’re metabolism does slow down while you are asleep, so eating before 6:00pm is a great way to lose weight. The problem is that all this truthful information is mixed in with a whole lot of bullshit, and there’s no easy way to separate the two without proper sources, statistics and evidence. Just by doing some cursory Google searches on some of Trudeau’s recommendations, I’ve uncovered that regular colonics (as Trudeau suggests) are believed to not only be unnecessary, but damaging to your body. You simply cannot put any of Trudeau’s advice to good use: he uses faulty logic, doesn’t provide his sources, makes claims not rooted in any science, and doesn’t even try to provide a semi-objective overview of his advice (really, you suggest 15 colonics in 30 days and don’t even mention there are concerns surrounding the procedure).
Please don’t buy the book. And if you do pick it up second-hand, just read it for a laugh and forget about it. But please don’t join the site or get 15 colonics in one month or bounce on a mini-trampoline everyday. Anyone who does needs more help than Trudeau could ever offer.
April 16, 2011
Absolute Garbage - a waste of a tree to make the book. Dude is a dud. Total scam. listed a whole bunch of obvious things like breathe fresh air and eat natural foods as the things to do and then went on rants against big business, big agriculture, big pharmacuticals.
I personally am NOT pro any of these but i can state concrete reasons for my beliefs, he just rants.. (& by the way he IS a convicted felon, has had MANY suits brought against him for fraud & lost them) yet he maintains HE is persecuted for his "knowlege" hah! the only thing he seems to KNOW is how to scam (& he does it well) I am profoundly glad i only paid 2bucks for the book and even then i feel ripped off.
Oh, and by the way, he is also pushing things like Scientology. i do NOT appreciate that. if i wanted info on that subject i would read something that honestly said they pushed it.
all in all its an AWEFUL book. pure garbage. best way to use it is as mulch for your garden if you arent worried it will pollute it!@
I personally am NOT pro any of these but i can state concrete reasons for my beliefs, he just rants.. (& by the way he IS a convicted felon, has had MANY suits brought against him for fraud & lost them) yet he maintains HE is persecuted for his "knowlege" hah! the only thing he seems to KNOW is how to scam (& he does it well) I am profoundly glad i only paid 2bucks for the book and even then i feel ripped off.
Oh, and by the way, he is also pushing things like Scientology. i do NOT appreciate that. if i wanted info on that subject i would read something that honestly said they pushed it.
all in all its an AWEFUL book. pure garbage. best way to use it is as mulch for your garden if you arent worried it will pollute it!@
February 28, 2008
A year or so before buying this book I saw this man briefly on an infomercial as I flipped throught the channels on tv. Not too long after that I saw it again and this time I stopped to watch. After listening for a while I wanted the book but I wasn't going to order it and it was too much anyway. I decided I would get it whenever it came to a book store or something. A year or so later I saw it at Costco for half the price and I got one immediately. I always take notes on these types of books and did so with this one too. He definately has an agenda and that is not what I was interested in. I skipped several chapters of the book and sections of other chapters because of this, but still found to book to be enlightening and encouraging for change. I would reccommend to people to borrow it from someone. I realize that this is the man's living, but he's doing just fine for himself and it may be worth reading first and then deciding if you want it as part of your library.
March 27, 2008
This book is so A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, it almost is inspiring enough to go for a career change! Holisitic medicine anyone?... I love how boldly this books speaks out about all the lies that are kept hidden from the public from the FDA, the FTC, and the pharmaceutical companies. The health care and food industry in this country is putting us in severe danger and it is only going to get worse. My advice...don't be deceived...and READ THIS BOOK!!!!
May 10, 2016
This book totally opened up a whole new chapter in my life. It made me look at the drug companies in completely different ways. This book just happens to be the reason why I am doing an argumentative about the pharmaceutical companies. It's to bad that I can't use some of the material in the book because most of it is based off of opinion. I would recommend this book to someone who likes homeopathic remedies, and despises the FDA and Pharmaceutical Companies.
January 7, 2021
The hell did I just read?!
The same few sentences about every ailment having a natural cure and how he can't tell you what it is because of censorship appear in this book on every other page. FOR 500 PAGES. Infuriatingly repetitive.
The same few sentences about every ailment having a natural cure and how he can't tell you what it is because of censorship appear in this book on every other page. FOR 500 PAGES. Infuriatingly repetitive.
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