What you eat is everybody’s business in the Nanny State

New York City “health czar” Thomas Frieden has committed to removing forcibly almost half of the salt from New Yorkers’ diets. And Gov. David Paterson has announced that his new War on Obesity will begin with the statewide expansion of New York City’s trans-fat ban. If Paterson succeeds, margarine and shortening will become contraband everywhere food is sold in the Empire State.

Show me a study touting the health benefits of a low-sodium diet, and I’ll show you another concluding that it could actually increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and other health problems. It seems that for every Ph.D, there’s an equal and opposite Ph.D.

Rather than banning saturated fats, trans fats, salt, food dyes, corn syrup, canned tuna or some other supposed flavor-of-the-month food demon, health authorities should do everything they can to educate consumers about food-related risks to our health that are scientifically proven. And then leave us alone.

And remember: There’s no such thing as “secondhand fat"...

[Incorrect: when we're on government run health care and everyone is paying for everyone else's 'care', we'll ALL have the 'right' to worry about what everyone else eats.
Won't that be grand.]

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