NEWS DIGEST AUGUST 2012

Contrary to lazy or uneducated  journalists, this reporter gets it and reports it clearly!  McKnight: Study comparing eating yolks to smoking has egg on its face

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Patricia Daly
Cheif Medical Officer CVH

Kudos to the seniors who are fighting public health tyranny.  Shame on the Coastal Vancouver Health chief medical officer who pushes senior people around just because she thinks she can.  A C.A.G.E. representative was interviewed on this and the article is pending publication.  Seniors fuming over indoor smoking ban

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Coffee makes the news...again!  Coffee the Wonder Drug: Studies Show it Fights Dementia, Diabetes, Cancer

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How Big Pharma buys doctors and politicians.  Fourty five million settlement - a slap on the wrist and all part of doing business for Pfizer.  Pfizer settles foreign bribery charges
 

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The anti-smoker industry can fool politicians but they can't fool the U.S. courts which have ruled that you can't violate the constitution  without a shred of evidence  that graphic warnings help decrease smoking prevalence.    Appeals Court Nixes Cigarette Warnings

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Bully Bloomberg on the war on soda:  ''Compared to smoking, this is an easy battle to win and nobody’s going to stop this''  Soda war a cinch: Mike

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Political correctness and intolerance gone totally mad in one Nebraska school.  School asks deaf preschooler to change his sign language name


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From Super Nanny state Australia: 

 Fun over for schoolchildren at Drummoyne Public School as handstands, cartwheels and somersaults are banned

 

Push to let drunk teens sue parents

James Paterson takes on a Nanny Stater  Simon Chapman (Top Australian Nanny) who is working diligently towards ''the end game'' (neologism for prohibition) in Australia, clearly  illustrates once again how the tobacco control industry resorts to ad homs when short of logical arguments.  

Simple Simon's slippery slope More on the same Australian nanny

''Will large breasted women only be permitted to dispense milk in 16 oz increments?'' Commenter from the NY Times

Through education from the pro breast milk movement and encouragement and assistance from caring health professionals, young mothers have been increasingly choosing to breastfeed  their infants.  But like many movements  that eventually  become overly ambitious and zealous,  the breastfeeding proponents  are on the verge of undoing all the progress they have done in educating mothers towards this more natural choice.  Indeed, women are now complaining about how insistent the hospital staff has become in their attempts to convince them to breastfeed even when they choose not to or can't for various reasons.  Some brief research on the internet  yielded the following results on mothers exasperated over the pressure they feel to breastfeed their infants : 

- They can be quite bullying. You don't have to do anything you don't want to but it's hard to say no.'' 

- Everytime a midwife came to talk to me they always made me feel like if I gave up I would be a failure.

- I couldn’t feed Nicholas, but I’d been told I had to stay in hospital until I succeeded...
In the end, after four days, I discharged myself. I fled. I felt as if I was escaping from prison.

- I have had two other children, didn't breastfeed them, for many reasons, and I don't even want to bother with it this time...so LEAVE ME ALONE!  When I explained this several times, each time she responded "Well, that's fine...but...."  But what....??  What don't you understand?  I kind of hate that lady now! 

- I seriously believe that is why so many Moms have a hard time Nursing nowadays... because their (sic) is so much damn pressure and stress behind it now. You are looked down upon if you do not.

Not surprising that Nanny Bloomberg, the New York mayor who thinks that no measure is too pushy or too tyrannical to get people to conform to his ideal of a ''better person'', couldn't resist to set yet another rule for his constituents.   '' New mothers who want formula won’t be denied it, but hospitals will keep infant formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications.  With each bottle a mother requests and receives, she’ll also get a talking-to. Staffers will explain why she should offer the breast instead.'' an article in the NY Post reports.  As well,  as of  September 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use.   One hospital spokesperson explains:  “The key to getting more moms to breast-feed is making the formula less accessible. This way, the RN has to sign out the formula like any other medication. The nurse’s aide can’t just go grab another bottle.”

If this is not the nanny state running amok, nothing is.  Much like the various movements that go overboard when they become too confident of their successes, this  bully mayor has truly overstayed his welcome.  God help  New Yorkers between now and his final stepping down from office.  

 To quote one hilarious comment from the NY Times  article linked below:  ''Will large breasted women  only be permitted to dispense milk in 16oz increments? '' referring of course to Bloomberg's plan to ban the sale of larger than 16 oz drinks. 

Mayor Bloomberg pushing NYChospitals to hide baby formula so more new moms will breast-feed