Sugar makes you stupid

Having just spent the evening dipping the tip of a dinner knife into the jar of Arancia honey, I can attest that sugar does make you dumb. Makes you dumb enough, in fact, to want to eat more sugar. Sigh...

This just in via a FB friend:

"Too much high-fructose corn syrup could do more than just make you fat: It could also make you stupid."

And, whatever you do, don't tell the truth about food, nutrition and health...

The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle.

Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without a license. According to the law, “practicing” nutrition includes “assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups” and “providing nutrition counseling.”

Steve Cooksey has learned that the definition, at least in the eyes of the state board, is expansive.

When he was hospitalized with diabetes in February 2009, he decided to avoid the fate of his grandmother, who eventually died of the disease. He embraced the low-carb, high-protein Paleo diet, also known as the “caveman” or “hunter-gatherer” diet. The diet, he said, made him drug- and insulin-free within 30 days. By May of that year, he had lost 45 pounds and decided to start a blog about his success.

The Diabetes Warrior tells us all about it.



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