Showing posts with label salt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salt. Show all posts

Ronald Bailey: The Red Meat, Eggs, Fat And Salt Diet

Government nutrition nannies get it wrong. Progressives tend to believe that government knows best. The unfolding fiasco over government nutrition misinformation should give them pause. For years now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been recommending that "everyone age 2 and up should consume less than 2,300      ... MORE

Baylen Linnekin: Big Brother Is Watching You Eat

Your betters say it's for your own good.      Just how far is the federal government willing to go to push Americans to make subjectively “healthy” food choices? Chillingly far, if the most recent meeting of the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) is any indicator. The DGAC is made up of fifteen academics,       ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: Five Phony Public Health Scares

Scaremongering sells.         Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares range from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin causes cancer to the ongoing hysteria     ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Bogus Health Scares

How activist misinformation harms Americans.       Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up a variety of menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares ranging from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin       ... MORE

VIDEO: Bath Salts, Naked Zombie Cannibals & Senators


It is clear which of the three do society the most damage.

A. Barton Hinkle: Step Away From That Cookie

The food police are prone to exaggeration.   “It may be better to live under robber barons,” wrote C.S. Lewis, “than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep...but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” Now there was a fellow who  ... MORE