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can be cured with a large doseFriday, 4 June 2010 by Bluenesslan  Bluenesslan Popular diet guru exposed as fraud A once-popular Chinese diet therapist, who claimed that the combination of mung beans and eggplant could cure almost all diseases, has been found to have faked his medical qualifications - cashing in on false but expensive health consultancy and a best-selling diet book. Officials with the Ministry of Health said Friday that the nutritionist qualification of Zhang Wuben, 47, a retired textile worker from Beijing, had been faked. The announcement came a day after an urgent inspection by health, industrial and commercial watchdogs of Zhang\'s clinic in the city luna gold, leading to the closure of his clinic, Wubentang. Zhang quickly rose to fame after his debut appearance on a television talk show - Baike Quanshuo, or \"the encyclopedic talk\" - in February to discuss health issues, and luna gold his book on diet theory subsequently generated a lot of buzz throughout the country. Zhang claimed that many of the world\'s chronic diseases, including diabetes and high blood pressure, even some cancers, can be cured with a large dose of mung beans, white radishes and eggplant. There were few patients Sunday at another clinic where Zhang practiced as a health experts on weekends. An employee said Zhang was on vacation. Nationwide sales of his book on food therapy, Eat Out the Diseases You Have Eaten, including DVDs, have surpassed 3 million. His pithy formula is \"the best doctor is yourself. The best hospital is the kitchen. The best medicine is food - the best curative effect can be achieved by persistence in food therapy.\" The Wubentang clinic wow cd keys, and Zhongyan Health Home had been crowded with patients, many of whom come from outside provinces, as Zhang has become a recognizable figure. A standard consultation with Zhang, which normally lasts 10 minutes, was wow cd keys priced at 300 yuan, and the next opening for one of those consultations was in 2012. But patients can pay up to 5,000 yuan to skip the wait and receive an emergency session. A patient surnamed Chen paid 5,000 yuan for a consultation, but it wasn\'t until later that she realized the prescription was identical to that given to at least 10 other patients. The remedy? \"Chinese yam and corn,\" Chen told the Beijing Times Sunday. Doctored resumé Zhang\'s resumé about his education at Beijing Medical University, as well as News category : Blogs 0 comments.
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