Your health is personal, and the decisions made between you and your doctor should remain free from government interference. History shows that when governments meddle in healthcare, the results can be disastrous—ranging from misguided dietary guidelines that fuel obesity to unethical experiments that violate human rights. From the flawed food pyramid to secret radiation tests and the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the U.S. government's track record in public health is littered with examples of overreach and harm. This post explores why entrusting your healthcare to government mandates is a risky proposition and why you should advocate for medical freedom.
Read MoreJared Diamond wrote a famous essay in 1999 called The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race. He was referring to the mistake of our transition to agriculture and the production of grain flour. By 1941, the Committee on Food and Nutrition recommended that flour be fortified with nutrients to help combat widespread malnutrition in areas where the American population relied on flour-rich foods. This led to white bread and flour, pasta, and rice being enriched with thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and iron. Then, in the 1970s, the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs made grains the basis of our diets. This post tells the story about our tragic switch to grains when agriculture was invented, the health costs, the realization of their poor quality in the 1930s, and, strangely, their illogical placement in the food pyramid as the basis of most of the calories in the American diet.
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