O Solid Fat, turn not thy face from thy Lord, for my budget is in trouble. In “Fructose, Public Policy, and the Low-Fat Reeducation Camp,” I made the following prediction: If they come for our fructose, they will come for our fat next. It seems that Denmark has provided some evidence for this postulate by …
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Fructose, Public Policy, and The Low-Fat Re-Education Camp (Short Post)
Here’s another short post in honor of my readers with ADHD. One subject that came up in Dr. Lustig’s recent interview on “Sugar and Health” is the need to formulate public policy in order to reduce fructose consumption. I think, as advocates of real traditional foods that will invariably have differing political dispositions, we need to …
The Federal Reserve and the War on Health Freedom
I made some important changes to my article, “The Federal Reserve and the War on Health Freedom.” The Federal Reserve is a privately owned but partially government-controlled institution with the exclusive legal right to create money — an act called “counterfeiting” when anyone else does it and that would qualify anyone else for a prison …
Swine Flu — A National Emergency With No Evidence
This past Saturday, President Obama declared the country to be in a state of National Emergency in response to the H1N1 swine flu “epidemic.” You can read the text of the proclamation here. Just three days earlier, CBS News released the results of a study it had conducted suggesting that swine flue statistics are hugely …
Do Blockages In Coronary Arteries Really Cause Heart Attacks?
Last weekend I was invited to speak at the Freedom Law School’s 2009 Health and Freedom Conference, which was an interesting mix of nutrition and politics, the latter portion largely devoted to opposition to the income tax, opposition to the Federal Reserve, and alternative theories about what happened on September 11, 2001. I don’t agree …