A couple of months ago I posted my take on Kevin Trudeau’s book Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About. I had occasion to look up Mr. Trudeau’s book on Amazon.com recently, and I ran across a review by one Robert P. Beveridge containing the following paragraph that I found interesting.

I have a hard-and-fast rule for diet books that, after reading this, I am going to expand to all health books: you can judge the veracity of the author’s beliefs by said author’s feelings about aspartame [the artificial sweetener in Equal]. I’ve never had to raise this past the first level of disbelief, as most authors will just categorically state that aspartame is bad for you, at which point you can dismiss them from your open-mindedness and rest assured you’re dealing with a quack.

It appears that Mr. Beveridge’s definition of open-mindedness is anyone seeing things the same way that he does.

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Whenever I give a talk and make the statement that a normal blood sugar represents less than one teaspoon of sugar dissolved in the blood, I’m often met with scepticism. It really is true, however.

Let’s go through the calculations so we can see exactly how this plays out.

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