Archives for February 2004

I'll tell you, my favorite vitamin – the big D – has sure been on a roll lately. First, research linking deficiencies of this sun-made vitamin to rising rates of many diseases…

…the grassroots lobbying (see als bribing) of individual doctors to prescribe drugs for unapproved uses, the marketing of these patent medicines is OUT OF CONTROL.

Only 9 out of 50 U.S. states are even HALFWAY PREPARED for an outbreak of serious disease, regardless of whether it arrives via bombs or birds.

Ever since 1991, when the popular TV news program 60 Minutes the "French Paradox" (the apparent correlation between red wine consumption and decreased rates of heart disease in France), Americans have been wild about their wine, especially the red varieties.

…The British government to court should the proposed national fluoridation plan become the law of the land. Currently, the legislation is being ram-rodded through the House of Commons, and the odds are good that it will pass easily.

According to the article, several studies suggest that these controversial drugs can have a lasting and negative effect on the developing brain.

“I was reading something about a diet from Australia for pets. I was surprised to see that he recommended chicken over red meat in his diet for dogs. He said that red meats are higher in saturated fats and associated with degenerative conditions such as arthritis. What is your feeling on this?”

It was inevitable that aspirin would eventually prove to be just another dangerous chemical hyped by the media and supported by most doctors…

I got an e-mail recently that reported something about margarine that really blew me away. It said that margarine is only one molecule away from being plastic…

In a strangely paradoxical phenomenon, the number of Irish pubs is burgeoning all over the world– except in Dublin, where it’s falling sharply. If the trend continues, Dublin could end up as the only European capital without an Irish pub…

But now the animal rights cuckoos have decided that Swiss cows need more freedom, so the farmers are letting their cows roam unattended in the countryside with their calves and a lone bull. Suddenly, cow life is cold, wet, and dangerous…

Conclusion: Drink, eat and have all the sex you want. It’s speaking English that kills you.

You’d think, after all the huffing and puffing for the past 20 years, the anti-smoking zealots would just declare victory and find another Enemy of Mankind. Maybe something constructive this time, like fluoride. And why aren’t they attacking Coca Cola and all the other slimy people in the junk beverage industry? Why is that? Tobacco actually provides a myriad of health benefits. Can you say that about Coke or fluoride?

The public health bureaucrats force us to drink sanitized milk, which is completely unnecessary under modern milking conditions, but apparently they can’t figure out how to clean green onions. Those were the culprits in the recent hepatitis A outbreak in western Pennsylvania. Hepatitis A is a generally benign form of hepatitis that is contracted only from contaminated food and lasts about 24 hours or less. But it wasn’t so benign this time. Three people actually died from the infection.

The onions in question