Healthy by Nature radio show this week: I interview Richard Walker, Jr. MD about his book, African-American Healthy: Tapping into the Remarkable Power of Vitamin D3. Then Dr. Parris Kidd helps us understand how to support our detoxifying enzymes. Call show with questions at 1-800-281-8255. Click here to find podcasts, show archives and ways to listen nationwide.
 
THE CASE OF THE FOOD NANNY
You may have heard on the news today that New York’s Mayor Bloomberg plans to build on his previous successes with banning hydrogenated fat in restaurants and smoking in public. His target this time is large sweetened beverages. The Health Department will forbid the sale of sweet drinks larger than 16 ounces in its 20,000 restaurants plus theaters and athletic facilities. My thoughts:

PRO: No one needs sugary beverages, period. The over-consumption of soft drinks and other sweetened beverages may well be the biggest underlying, easily avoided cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. I heard an interview with a NY citizen who literally whined “in this economy, without pop, what am I supposed to drink?” Puuleeez, it’s called “water” and it is very good for you. As tap water goes, NY City’s is actually among the best. Mr. Bloomberg did do a lot of good by banning indoor smoking in public places and by getting rid of trans fats.

CON: Public smoking was a different sort of matter. One person’s vice was causing disease in the guy next to him. The situation with trans fats was different too. Removing those damaged trans fats didn’t harm businesses or change what people could order. However, with sweet drinks, just like prohibition, people will find a way to drink them. They will just refill their smaller glasses or buy sodas in stores. It is also an uneven enforcement because the ban doesn’t cover milkshakes or alcoholic beverages which can have just as much sugar. Restaurants make a very high profit margin on soft drinks and truthfully claim their business will be hurt. I value our freedoms and I don’t much like the government telling me what to drink.

However, my biggest concern is that so very often diet dictocrats just don’t have their facts straight–especially the federal government. Besides often operating on old unproven dogma, the bureaucrats are subject to pressure from economic interests and can create guidelines or even regulations that turn out to be just plain wrong. The Initial food pyramid is a great example. Never mind that it has since been revised twice, the principles it stood for are still assumed to be “fact”. Unfortunately, since its publication, we’ve gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. Apparently even in stylish NY, the balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade aren’t the only really large shapes going down the streets. Bloomberg’s motives are good and the target is a worthy one, but I think education will have a longer lasting effect.

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LAST WEEK
Trauma (either physical or emotional) can create lifelong adverse effects on health and well-being. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as experienced by the military is a dramatic example. The memories of trauma are locked in the right brain. However, talk therapy communicates with the left brain. Jerry Mungadze, PhD pioneered innovative techniques to communicate with the right brain and thereby speed healing. Listen to the archive of last week’s show. LINK

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