Thursday, April 26, 2012

Blogger Faces Jailtime

A former diabetic blogger named Steve,
Writes how “Paleo Diet” helps him achieve,
No longer a diabetic,
Message is prophetic,
Facing jail time for this is hard to believe!

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.”
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)



You may ask, is this some story coming out of communist China? Not even, close. This story is out of North Carolina.

Reason magazine broke this senseless story about a former diabetic named Steve Cooksey whom writes a popular blog about his experiences with the “Paleo” diet. The North Carolina Board of Dietetics came down on him saying his blog, DiabetesWarrior.net, violates the law.


In a nutshell, giving advice on nutrition is equivalent to “practicing nutrition” and requires a license.

The board director agrees that Cooksey has a First Amendment right to blog about his diet, but encouraging others to adopt the same diet is illegal unless he is a state certified dietitian.

All Cooksey is allowed to do is write about how good the diet was for him and what great things the diet did for him. When he tells others to use it, he crossed the line.



If found guilty; Cooksey faces up to 120 days in jail. Get this, at the bottom of every page; Cooksey placed a disclaimer that says this,

“I am not a doctor, dietician, nor nutritionist…In fact I have no medical training of any kind.”

One would think the government has better things to do than fry a small fish. If the government would take their focus off messing with us and focus this attention on things like … I do not know … Maybe unemployment and creating new jobs and lowering the deficit. Then maybe, just maybe, we would all be a lot better off!

When do you think the government will start going after online reviewers of diet supplements, etc.?

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