I was shocked to read recently that middle school children are being screened for cholesterol. Cholesterol, as it turns out, is also linked to Vitamin D.

How about screening for Vitamin D deficiency in all our children in order to prevent future diabetics?

Blacks are a lot more Vitamin D deficient than whites due to needing more sun exposure to get the same amount of Vitamin D, and they have the higher diabetes and obesity rate to prove it.

We need our public health officials to review the existing research and stimulate further research. Public policy on sun exposure and vitamin D supplementation needs to be revised, QUICK!

http://vitamindcouncil.com/research.shtml

Man, the Bible Belt does not stop people from having premarital sex. In fact, people start younger. They just protest about it louder.

Still, anything that blows away aunties’ puritanical attitudes is all right with me.

i happened to be in india when the guy was getting hauled over the coals for usign heavy metals in his potions. i heard him in a people’s court forum on the TV. the man is very knowledgeable and i am very impressed – not the least because he truly represented himself in a very accessible language without any airs. regarding the coke and stuff – the guy actually pulled out articles, references and numbers.

you have to consider this in context that i was going through a little period of outrage seeing the so called idols from bollywood endorsing pepsi and coke like it was the next thing to mother’s milk.

ramdev isnt like the maharishi types in my opinion – but you got to see some of his sessions to understand his influence.

quizman linked to it in another thread. it’s indeed an excellent piece. a friend is reading his book and has high praise for it so far. one thing that never fails to astonish me is the size of portions in the u.s. and the ensuing wastage of food. i recently bought a small ice cream cone and ended up with three gigantic scoops of ice cream fit for about four to five people. i ended up having to throw most of it away. even when i order sandwiches i have to tell them to reduce the quantity of filling. [having said all that, i admit i do like my sugary tea! but have really cut back on sugar over the past year]

Pollan’s piece was great, and explained a lot of what I’ve noticed about American ways of thinking about food, esp the good food-bad food dichotomy.

One word! High-fructose-corn-syrup! Nuff said!

Did anybody see Michael Pollan’s long piece in the NYT Magazine this past Sunday? It’s brilliant.

If there’s such a thing as a Pollanian, I am it- “Thirty years of nutritional science has made Americans sicker, fatter, and less well nourished.”

Swami Ramdev needs to explain why colas are so much more evil than sugary tea (yeah I know about the antioxidants in tea, but still) other than the fact that cola drinking is a Decadent Habit Learned from the West (while tea drinking is also a decadent habit learned from the west but further back).