My New Book! Don’t Diet: Research Nutrition
Okay, I don’t really have a new book. I’ve never tried a formal diet (mostly I research and speak on the economics of public policy debate topics). But like most people I have experience...
Category: Nutrition/Public Health
End the Pandemic With Fat, Fasting, Feasting!
Just three weeks! Experts advise to wear masks, social distance, maybe return to lock down and then the virus could vanish and pandemic end. Maybe so, but epidemiologists, politicians, and bloggers disagree. With new...
The Distant Metabolic Gift vs. Low-Fat Federal Dietary Guidelines
[Revised from original May 16th post] Mostly stuck in the pandemic, curious about Covid-19, social distancing, and lockdowns, plus regulation of testing, masks, and treatments. Best maybe not to watch evening news (better described...
Notes on 2019-2020 NCFCA LD Resolution: Health Care Rights
• Resolved: Individuals have a right to health care. Consider the language from the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free...
Federal Regulations Slow Start-ups and Health Care Innovation
State regulation of hairbraiders was the subject of the Braiding Freedom video in the last post. Continuing the theme of the last few posts on the costs and injustices of overregulation, this post looks again at the...
Voters Ignorant About Federal Healthcare Law and About Winning the Lottery
Ilya Somin, writing in Forbes, notes that “low-information” voters don’t know much about the new federal healthcare reform law. Surveys show voters are ignorant about a lot of other federal policies too. Yet voters...