What’s Left?
Posted: December 10, 2011 Filed under: Health, Uncategorized Leave a comment »What’s Left?
Left-handedness appears to be associated with a greater risk for a number of psychiatric and developmental disorders. While lefties make up about 10% of the overall population, about 20% of people with schizophrenia are lefties, for example. Links between left-handedness and dyslexia, ADHD and some mood disorders have also been reported in research studies.
Fast Food Is Not a Poor Choice
Posted: November 10, 2011 Filed under: Health, Poor Leave a comment »http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/10/fast-food-is-not-a-poor-choice
Five myths about healthy eating
Posted: October 18, 2011 Filed under: Health, Inequality Leave a comment »Junk Food isn’t Cheaper After All
Posted: September 30, 2011 Filed under: Health, Poverty Leave a comment »http://healthblog.ncpa.org/junk-food-isn%E2%80%99t-cheaper-after-all/
Nearly 900,000 Fewer Cancer Deaths Since 1990: Report – US News and World Report
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Maybe the coolest thing ever
Posted: December 3, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Health, WHO - Health Care Stats Leave a comment »http://cafehayek.com/2010/12/maybe-the-coolest-thing-ever.html
In Praise of Fast Food
Posted: September 14, 2010 Filed under: Economic Growth, Health, Wealth Leave a comment »http://www.utne.com/Environment/Fast-Food-Culinary-Ethos.aspx
The Challenge of Global Health
Posted: August 30, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Health, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.lauriegarrett.com/blog/media/1/20070112-garrett.pdf
HT: Mark Bonica
Feds: Fatty Meat Is Bad for You. Now Shut Up and Eat Your Government-Provided Fatty Meat.
Posted: June 16, 2010 Filed under: Health, Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Feds: Fatty Meat Is Bad for You. Now Shut Up and Eat Your Government-Provided Fatty Meat.
A great catch by Cato’s Sallie James, who
notes these two news items from yesterday:
1) Don’t eat fatty meat,
say new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed
guidelines:
[The report's] findings: People should consume more
vegetables and whole grains, and less fatty meats,
salt and sugar…The guidelines in turn will form the basis of the
USDA’s updated food pyramid, scheduled to be released in spring
2011. They also determine the nutrition standards for all federal
nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch Program,
which feeds more than 30 million children a day.[emphasisJames']
2) We will now use your taxpayer dollars to buy
fatty meat, and then hand it off to the poorest, youngest, most
obese segments of the population:
The U.S. Agriculture Department plans to buy as much as
$14 million worth of dark meat chicken products to help producers
facing a glut in stocks and decreasing prices, Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday…The government purchase… will
be used by food banks, school lunch programs, and other food
assistance programs.
As James notes, it’s even the same agency in both cases.
Hey look, we made a
video about this!:
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