Category: Health

The EU’s Dangerous Tobacco Ban Experiment

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Governments around the world are getting it all wrong when it comes to tobacco regulation. It seems their goal is punishing tobacco users and tobacco companies, rather than improving public health. Remember this, from the World Health Organization last month? ...
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Welcome to the Doctor’s Office — Your Papers Please, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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I recently took my daughter to our pediatric ophthalmologist — a physician she has seen for several years, and with whom we have a very good relationship. At this appointment, however, the receptionist gave me three new forms to fill ...
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Rahm Emanuel: He’s Got Moves Like Bloomberg

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At the same time as a high-end shopping mall vending machine in Burbank, California is beginning to dispense caviar, truffles and escargot, city employees in Chicago are looking at the possibilities of finding kale smoothies and organic, gluten-free soy crackers ...
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Signs, Signs Everywhere: ObamaCare Demands Them, Regardless of Cost

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The Washington Times and Steve Forbes have alerted Americans to a little known provision in ObamaCare that could cost the food industry millions of work hours and billions of dollars, yet for very little, if any, consumer benefit. As the ...
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We Need Government Health Care So We Can Eat Twinkies?

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An unintentionally amusing article from the leftie online magazine Salon asks, "Could public health care have saved Hostess?" It's a serious article, but I'm laughing at the idea that we need a government-run health care system to insure our access ...
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Project 21’s LeBon Calls for Common Sense Over Bloomberg’s Edible Edicts

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As noted by the National Center’s Jeff Stier last week, the Bloomberg Administration’s New York City ban on most private donations of food to the needy remains in effect. Is that wise, considering the state of the city? Because city ...
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World Health Organization Bureaucrats Want More Bans

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As parties to a global anti-tobacco treaty meet in Seoul, South Korea this week, I wrote an op-ed for the English edition of one of South Korea’s largest newspapers. In today’s Korea JoongAng Daily, I warn about the actual public health dangers ...
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Bloomberg’s Food Donation Ban Still in Place

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Volunteers who want to donate food to a New York City-run homeless shelter will be turned away. As I wrote in the New York Post in March, The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, ...
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An Ode To The Role Of Big Government, by Elaina F. George, MD

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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a vision of the federal government as our savior is being perpetuated by the media and the left. This romanticized vision of the benefits of an ever-expanding government assuming command of everything — from ...
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Is Organic Food Worth It?

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The federal government annually spends millions of taxpayer dollars promoting and regulating organic agriculture. Is it worth it? In a piece for Real Clear Science, I explain why pro-organic arguments made by the likes of popular television health guru, Dr ...
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