SLIPPERY SLOPE? NAH WE MUST BE INVENTING THINGS AGAIN.

So let's see a raise of hands from all those who thought we were wearing tinfoil hats when we said that once you give in to one type of ...

Scenes from the Nanny State: Marlhaven Lights

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so frightfully close to the truth. If the video doesn't play ''Scenes from the Nanny Stat...

NANNY BLOOMBERG

In case you haven't yet heard, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, now wants to ban sugary drinks sold in formats bigger than 16 ounces.  ...

News Digest May 17, 2012

Coffee It’s healthy, it’s healthy not, it’s healthy, it’s healthy not, it’s healthy…according to this umpteenth study on the issue:    NIHst...

''FREAKINITUS PINOCHIOTUS'' EXPLAINED BY Tom Naughton

Fat Head' writer/director Tom Naughton's speech about how to tell good science from bad science. Whether one agrees with Tom Naught...

TAKING THE HAPPY OUT OF THE HAPPY MEAL

San Francisco health authorities voted 8 - 3 to take the ‘’happy’’ out of the happy meal by forbidding McDonald’s to offer a toy with any me...

SECOND HAND JUNK FOOD

No, this has nothing to do with junk food leftovers from the night before. It pertains to the fumes emitted by the cooking of unhealthy food...

EXPANDING ON THE SIZE OF THE ANTI-OBESITY PROPAGANDA

After being force fed regularly with anti-obesity propaganda including but not limited to obesity being contagious , obesity being a...

THE YEAR THE CUPCAKE BECAME A KILLER

It is mind boggling how public health can justify their outrageous fear mongering using vulnerable children. Children take at face value any...

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SMOKERS

We repeatedly warned about the slippery slope once you have allowed government to dictate your lifestyle choices even on unpopular issues su...

LEAVING THEM NO CHOICE SO THEY CAN LEARN TO MAKE CHOICES. CAN WE SAFELY SAY NEWTHINK?

High schools are supposed to be institutions that help develop the human potential in the new adult generation of citizens to face the chall...

FOOD ADDICTS

An interesting paper by Dale M. Atrens Nicotine as an Addictive Substance: A Critical Examination of the Basic Concepts and Empirical Eviden...

ARE YOU CONFUSED YET ?

As if parents weren’t already confused enough about what is good or not good for their children’s health, here comes more from the wonderful...

LET KIDS BE KIDS

A click to Sandy Swarcz’s blog Junkfood Science takes us to a very powerful article about a woman who has had it with schools indoctrinatin...

OBESITY EPIDEMIC CHALLENGED BY EXPERTS

When reading an article such as the one from Pennlive.com we tend to think that perhaps there is hope that the anti-obesity campaign will no...

DAIRY PRODUCTS WILL CARRY SHOCKING WARNINGS

More nanny tactics from the UK. Dairy foods will now carry shocking warnings similar to tobacco warnings. And to think that some didn’t beli...

IT STARTS WITH THE HAPPY MEAL

It seems that the same city council that introduced smoking bans in England, will not stop with kicking smokers out in the streets. Happy Me...