No, it doesn’t increase the risk.
Just one more nail in the coffin of the notion that the enemy is fat. What’s important is the type of fat, and lard is actually just fine, at least in terms of either cholesterol or weight gain. The real problem with fried foods is the batter. And the potatoes in the fries.
What a disastrous policy.
Greg Benford writes about the evolution of science fiction through the space age, up to now, as part of the Reason space issue.
My thoughts on abortion and guns, over at PJMedia.
…means subsidies for the rich, and harm to the poor. Which is generally the result of crony socialism.
I don’t golf, but is it really equivalent to s3x in terms of strenuousness?
The pervading dishonesty. It really was a judicial atrocity, and that’s true regardless of one’s opinion on whether or not abortion should be legal.
I’ve long complained about stupid scientific inaccuracies in films, but some people in Hollywood are making more of an attempt to get it right.
Against Paula Deen.
As I noted earlier, some of this is rooted in nutritional ignorance:
You don’t get diabetes from fatty foods, or the Inuit, who traditionally lived on whale blubber and seal fat, would all be diabetic. Well, actually they are now, but they never were until they started eating flour and sugar, which is the problem with Paula Deen’s cooking as well.
But most of the criticisms I’ve seen have focused on the fat, rather than the carbs, so this is just a battle in the overall ignorant (and deadly) war on dietary fat. Not that there isn’t some anti-southern bigotry involved as well, of course. Like that against Christians, it’s the only other acceptable form of bigotry among the politically correct elite.
Collectivism isn’t a new, or “progressive” idea — it’s the oldest one in the world. Liberty is what’s new, only a couple hundred years old, but the reactionary Left wants to take us back to the past.
And read the whole thing, though it’s long. It’s quite interesting.