2011 February

Last week I told you about the ludicrous USDA claim that changes in chicken feed have made eggs more nutritious, while also somehow reducing cholesterol content.

Dr. Shay was asked to conduct a peer review of a study I told you about two years ago. Researchers examined four subjects with neurological abnormalities. Each subject used large amounts of denture cream (such as Fixodent and Poligrip) that contained zinc, and each turned out to have very high blood levels of zinc.

For a master class in system manipulation, you couldn’t do much better than the big brains at Merck. Here’s how they turned a completely made up bone-health condition into a license to print money.

Here’s another blow for those medical mainstreamers who love to crack this hilarious bon mot: Vitamin supplements just give you expensive urine.

According to the USDA, changes in chicken feed account for a boost in the vitamin D content of eggs. Riiiight. For eons, the egg wasn’t nutritionally sound. It took the genius of 21st century factory farmers to perfect the imperfect egg. So basically, USDA officials seem to think they know more about balance and nutrition than God.