http://www.theblaze.com/stories/blogger-could-be-thrown-in-jail-for-writing-about-his-diet/BLOGGER COULD BE THROWN IN JAIL FOR…WRITING ABOUT HIS DIET?
What bullshit...Shit i'm beginning to think that the mainstream medical community is all about profits. ONly drugs cure disease..
It’s the sort of story you expect to come from a third world superstitious kleptopcracy – yet it happened here on American soil, in North Carolina, thanks to good old fashioned state-level bureaucracy. Reason Magazine brings us the bizarre and senseless story of a Steve Cooksey, a former diabetic who put himself on the popular “Paleo” diet and decided to tell the world about his experiences, only to have the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition (yes, that exists) come down on him:
This past January the state diatetics and nutrition board decided Cooksey’s blog — Diabetes-Warrior.net — violated state law. The nutritional advice Cooksey provides on the site amounts to “practicing nutrition,” the board’s director says, and in North Carolina that’s something you need a license to do.
Unless Cooksey completely rewrites his 3-year-old blog, he could be sued by the licensing board. If he loses the lawsuit and refuses to take down the blog, he could face up to 120 days in jail.
The board’s director says Cooksey has a First Amendment right to blog about his diet, but he can’t encourage others to adopt it unless the state has certified him as a dietitian or nutritionist.
It’s a distinction only an embittered bureaucrat could come up with. So long as you just say a particular diet is wonderful, or worked for you, you’re fine, but if you actually tell people to use it, you’re supplying nutritional advice. Never mind that the implication of any positive review of a product is that someone should use it.
But wait, there’s more! It seems Cooksey anticipated this objection and made sure to put a disclaimer at the bottom of every page of his website that says the following:
“I am not a doctor, dietitian, nor nutritionist … in fact I have no medical training of any kind.”
But says the bureaucrat responsible, that doesn‘t matter because he’s still trying to get people to trust him. One wonders when they will press charges against Amazon diet reviewers.
Nor is the diet in question – the “Paleo” diet – somehow revolutionary. In fact, it is a popular one with many people, nor is Cooksey the first to speak highly of it. He just happened to be the one who did it most comprehensively in North Carolina. And getting anyone to trust you without the Government’s say so down there is apparently a crime.
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