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industry, but this is something that we knew. Perhaps the knee-jerk lefty reaction is not a good answer, but we know the science.

If you haven’t read Gary Taubes work, you should. The truth is that the liver takes sugar–fructose (table sugar is roughly 50% sucrose and 50% fructose) and turns it into triglycerides–fat. That fat is often in the form of high density LDL and that is very strongly linked to cardiac trouble. What else leads to a rise in blood sugars?

Carbohydrates. Refined flour. White bread. Those are quickly metabolized into sugar. It’s not really a scientific question, and it’s only now that people are openly talking about how the high-carb diet espoused by the US government and the American Heart Association actually causes heart disease when it was recommended to prevent it! Will they admit they were wrong? I doubt it. The vegetarian/low fat cult is pretty dang powerful right now…

It really goes to the argument that dietary fat leads to high blood lipids (fats). The actual scientific support for that is very sparse to non-existent. In other words, maybe you’ve been avoiding bacon for the last 10 years when in fact it made NO difference in your risk of heart disease. You ate nonfat white bread and Special K (and skim milk–full of lactose) along with an orange for breakfast, and your lipid levels got worse. Yeah, because that was heavily carbohydrate and that leads to heart disease, obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, and cancer. Fat does not cause high lipid levels and heart disease, sugar does.

But the obvious deal is that to eat low carb (and thus necessarily high fat) is the only way to prevent diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, heart disease, and cancer. Those things are all linked, and there’s a dang good reason for that.

The truth is, I don’t really care what others do if it affects only them. And I think the issues of cancer pain and spasticity in MS are very interesting. So I have no problem at all with pharmaceuticals based on marijuana. But I think there is a very big difference between therapeutic use and recreational use. One is quite justified, while the other is illegitimate (as with certain pain killers and muscle relaxants).

The issue for me in terms of legalizing pot is mainly one of safety. We already have a HUGE problem with drunk drivers killing innocent people on the road, and there is no reason to add marijuana to the mix. Yes, you can make driving while stoned illegal (as it is now), but for sure usage will increase and innocent people will still die as a result of legalization. THAT is the problem. This is just a bad idea from the get-go. I think there is another issue of making it legal adds legitimacy to usage, and I think that is indeed important, though not my #1 issue. I wouldn’t smoke it even if it were legal. In fact, I had a doc talk to me about how he would prescribe it to me for my MS. I told him I wouldn’t use it even if it were totally above-board. That’s just how I roll.

Here’s something to be concerned about.

you don’t want your mother to know about.”

So a former abortion big wig now turned against abortion says that in a recent book. I think it is very good advice. Most of the time, it will guide you correctly.

I think the rule of thumb is that if you feel like you have to hide the action from anyone, it is probably not a good one. I spend a lot of time testifying in court as an expert witness, and when I was training one of my professors said that one should imagine a crowd of one’s peers hearing what you say. Good advice.

hoax. This has killed a ton of kids. Folks, get your kids immunized. There is simply no evidence at all that vaccines are in any way related to Autism.

who have treated Autism know–that there is NO link between the MMR (or any other) vaccine and the disorder. We always knew that, and this is really no surprise. This was all a hoax. Now the truth (finally) comes out. Of course, there are parents who are bent on seeing a relationship between their child’s disorder and vaccines. But there are a TON of dead and suffering kids as a result of this famous study.

The truth is, most kids show symptoms that are recognizable at about the same period of time that they get vaccines. But when you look at videos of the child’s first birthday (and parents often have them), one sees that the Autism was already there.

Now I’m not saying that kids never have reaction to vaccines, only that it is rare. And it does NOT NOT NOT cause Autism. I wish we could put this behind us. Unfortunately, one person has, for money, made it so millions of kids are dead or at risk. I wouldn’t want to have THAT on my conscience! That is the height of psychopathy.