Nanny state of mind
by digby
Lindsay Beyerstein flagged this little good news factoid:
The amount of trans fat in the American bloodstream fell by more than half after the Food and Drug Administration required food manufacturers to label how much of the unhealthful ingredient is in their products, according to a new study…The decline, unusually big and abrupt, strongly suggests government regulation was effective in altering a risk factor for heart disease for a broad swath of the population.
It turns out that government mandates and information campaigns can make a difference. Not that it’s right, mind you. Before you may have died of heart disease, but at least you knew you were free. Today, you could be healthier, but you might as well be living in a gulag.
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