Regarding Bob Barefoot

[Saman]

I just came across the TV show by Kevin Trudeau where he was interviewing Bob Barefoot.

I did a search on the forum to see if there was any discussions on the man but I couldn't find anything.

So this is his site:

_http://www.tvcurebooks.com/

I find myself agreeing with most of what he is saying, in general, but of course 'the devil is always in the details.'

So does anyone - hopefully not from such sites such as Quackwatch.com, etc.

Here is what Wiki has on him, which is not much in terms of criticism since it doesn't site any sources of the experts that advise staying away from the products that Mr. Barefoot endorses - only the mention of Leon Jaroff's critique from Time Magazine.

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barefoot

While trying to find more info on the guy I came across the following site where the author replies to a reader's question regarding Coral Calcium and Bob Barefoot by saying (bolds are mine):

Well, first off, I want to applaud you for remaining skeptical of the health claims described in the book, "The Calcium Factor," not because of whether or not they are true, but because the person authoring the book has a significant financial interest in your purchasing calcium.

As you know, I never have a financial interest in the products that I recommend or review on this website. And, I think it is a great conflict of interest for anyone to both write about a nutritional supplement and sell that same nutritional supplement. It doesn't mean that they're wrong. It just means that their information must be taken in context.

I encourage you and other readers to live day-to-day with that kind of skepticism. We should all be skeptics of people who are trying to sell us products, especially if it's drugs or herbs or vitamins, because anything can have an element of hype or exaggeration to it. Just because someone is offering something that seems to be a natural vitamin or mineral supplement doesn't mean it's not being over-hyped.

In fact, there are many hucksters and con artists in the nutritional supplement industry, just as there are in the pharmaceutical industry. So, my position has never been that all nutritional supplements are good and that all pharmaceuticals are bad. It's just that if you're looking for what's truly healthy you're only going to find them from the natural world and never from the world of manufactured, synthesized drugs.

After mentioning how getting calcium from milk is inferior to getting it from dark leafy vegtables - "spinach, kale, broccoli, and of course, all of the popular salad greens, the darker the better" - etc, etc, basically letting the reader know how milk is bad which is something many of us are aware of here, he goes on to say:

Essentially, the whole argument about the benefits of calcium comes down to your position on the RDA numbers, or in other words, what you think is the recommended daily allowance or requirement of calcium in an adult human being. My own position, as I've stated, is that most of the population is chronically deficient in calcium.

He goes on to say:

Wrapping this up, let me give you my experience with getting calcium into my body. What do I do for it? First of all, I do take coral calcium. I blend it in with my morning drink. If you've been reading this site for any period of time, you know that I have a morning drink, blended drink, where I combine rice protein, spirulina powder, superfood powder, soy milk, stevia, whole aloe vera leaf right out of my yard and a few other elements including coral calcium, and then drink that down as my breakfast.

But, I don't rely on coral calcium exclusively. I also consume a large amount of spirulina. It can be anywhere from 5 to 20 grams a day, depending on the day. I also tend to eat a lot of dark, leafy vegetables. I also consume a lot of nuts that have small amounts of calcium.

So I tend to get my calcium in a way that ancient humans got their calcium, which was by eating unprocessed foods in fairly large quantities, and getting those foods from their natural environments. So of course, I purchase organic foods whenever possible and I eat superfoods in fairly large quantities.

Well gosh, he takes soy milk...not good as far as I know currently - soy if not fermented like tofu and if processed = bad, to put it in a simple minded manner. It's late or maybe I am just simple minded. :P

So the thought I am left with is if anyone thinks it is worth to buy any of Bob's books? Not that expensive, or so it seems since you are only paying for shipping, and the annual membership to Naturalcures.com is currently kind of tempting. Well I bet if I just look harder I could just find the info in those books on the web somewhere, maybe even in the health and diet section of our forum? Peace.