Kevin_Kennedy
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Bad news in an important Institute for Justice-launched lawsuit defending the right of free speech on the Internet about matters of diet and nutrition.
A state licensing board in North Carolina tried to suppress a blogger who talked up and advised people on the health benefits of the "paleo" diet (that is, eating as we think cavement ate, no grains or processed foods), telling him directly what he could or could not say about his belief that the high-meat, low-carb diet helped him with his diabetes. The case was dismissed by a federal court late last week.
Paleo Diet Lawsuit Dismissed By Court in Blow to Free Expression - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Just more evidence that the state is in bed with Big Pharma and the Medical Industrial Complex. Government licensing, of course, is simply used to protect the government's favored constituents from competition. In this case, a person advising people to eat paleo hurts the bottom line of drug companies and doctors, so he has to be stopped.