Not slamming supplements -- I take some myself -- but the problem is when a person, website or publication tells you that this supplement or substance will cure dangerous illnesses when they don't and by not utilizing conventional medicine, you can die.
When I was diagnosed with diabetes, some well meaning friends and family sent me articles promoting various natural "cures" for diabetes. While a diabetic can manage the disease effectively to the point where he or she might not need insulin or oral medicines, the disease is never really cured. A cure implies that you don't need anything for the diabetes and you can go back to your old eating habits and being a couch potato. That is not so. And if you continue to take this "natural" supplement, but don't adopt a healthier lifestyle, diabetes will kill you.
You also have to be wary of certain "natural" supplements that can really be harmful. Just because a substance is "natural" doesn't mean it's safe. Arsenic is a natural substance, but I wouldn't want to take arsenic to cure or treat a disease. And some natural supplements will clash with medication you may be taking, or render the medication ineffective. That's why, when you go to a doctor these days, he wants to know everything you are taking -- prescription and non-prescription drugs AND supplements or other substances.
I apologize for preaching, but I just want you to be careful of what you read on the internet and be sure before you follow any such advice on "natural cures" that the recommendations are safe. And I don't know about getting news on national and world issues from a publication that specializes in promoting alternative medicine. Rolling Stone was fine as long as it stuck to music, but it got into some serious legal trouble when it delved into political issues. Natural News might want to learn a lesson from Rolling Stone and stay out of issues it knows nothing about.