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 his claim to be among the first nutritionists certified by the Ministry of Health World of Warcraft power leveling, have also garnered skeptics. There have been several cases in China involving people practicing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) without a license. A decade ago, Hu Wanlin, who claimed to be a doctor World of Warcraft power leveling, won similar popularity as Zhang for promoting herbal formulas to treat diseases. The formulas were later found to contain high amounts of sodium sulphate, which is poisonous in large doses. Hu was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for conducting an illegal medical practice. As a direct result of the trial, an official system of medical licensing was set up in China. Mung beans have no magic power to wow gold, treat diabetes, high blood pressure or even cancer, according to registered nutritionists. Fu Yanling, a professor at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, told the Global Times that Zhang's TCM theory is one-sided and unscientific, which has the potential to create health hazards. "Zhang has no medical background. His theory is only a superficial understanding of conventional TCM theory. "The public should seek advice or treatment from authorized and reliable medical agencies or professionals instead of only reading healthcare books," Fu said. Fang Zhouzi, a renowned commentator, said on his blog that "The public's disappointment with wow gold the modern medical care system has led to them distancing world of warcraft power leveling, themselves from authorized public hospitals and world of warcraft power leveling focusing on quick solutions to prevent diseases." "Such a prevailing public mentality has been well captured by some businessmen and later exploited," he wrote. Life Times, a newspaper run by the Global Times, was among the first media organizations to question Zhang's theories. "The media should raise the threshold of publishing health-related information to the public. They need to make sure the medical experts they've invited have real qualifications, and the health-related content they publish should also be assessed carefully," Tian Xiangyang, a medical expert with the China Health Education Center, was quoted by the paper as saying May 23. Loyal to the end Outcries from skeptics and 2moons dil, health ministry officials aside, Zhang still has plenty of supporters. He Xiongfei, chief designer of Zhang's book, defended Zhang 2moons dil, calling him a "grass-roots" medical expert who promotes health to society. "An inquiry among Zhang's patients should be immediately carried out, and if the thera-peutic effect is sound, Zhang should be given a medical certificate by the ministry, despite the fact that he has no educational background," he said.