Reliable evidence or Pharmaceutical Companies supporters club?
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Apparently freed from all common sense and the application of rock-solid evidence, the EU Commissioners appear to be hell-bent on interfering in the Vitamin and Mineral Supplement business. Look out for more and more EU ‘revelations’ concerning, for example, the dire results following the consumption of more than 600 units of Vitamin D per day, for example. The mere fact that you can absorb tens of thousands of units of Vitamin D through the skin in an hour or two will not trouble the Commission.
There was not even one death caused in the USA by a vitamin supplement in 2010, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.
The new 203-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published online at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.
Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or dietary mineral supplement.
Three people died from non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical use of sodium and one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC report specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a nutritional supplement.
This is even better news than it might seem at first. You see, the zero figure includes all those people assumed by the Commission to need protection from themselves. Such people, for example, as those who consume ridiculously high quantities of this or that vitamin or mineral in the mistaken belief that something wonderful will then happen to their health.
Of course, those who look after their own health by the informed use of supplements will be in less need of visits to the doctor, followed by prescriptions of products produced by pharmaceutical companies...
For a fuller picture see:- http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml and look at the December 28th 2011 news release.
Lord-a-Leaping (from Quango to Quango)
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The deliciously Gilbertian, Lord Mucho-Pomposo Turner has retired from one of his more ludicrous benefit societies, the Committee on Climate Change.
Is it possible that Lord Turner's breathtaking advance through the Quangocracy to be become of the UK's wealthiest beneficiaries of tax payer funded salary and pensions, has been based on his extraordinary ability to get things wrong 100% of the time (known as the 'dependable record' by financial economists).
Some of us get something wrong but Turner manages to get absolutely everything wrong. In this respect, the noble Lord is even less useful than a stopped clock, which at least tells the right time, twice a day. Where will he pop up next? Does one suppose he and Will Hutton go on walking tours together to discuss how they can remain as the most absurd figures in modern Britain.
Greys, Greens & Blues.
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Some interesting weekend nonsense...
Age UK -- another of those mysterious government funded charities which dabbles in politics but does bugger all for old folk -- are now spending a fortune on radio advertising, telling old people about cold weather. Worth a listen for those with a sense of the absurd. (Classic FM in the main).
They will send them a brochure to stop them sitting naked in the garden over Christmas. Of course 'old' means 'stupid' to the ‘busy’ middle class twits at these sort of organisations. What old people want is cheaper electricity, not much chance with loony Huhne at the helm of energy policy I fear.
‘Nice but dim’ ‘Dave’ Cameron is going to spend lots of public money on more middle class twits visiting ‘problem families’. Of course he doesn’t know anything about them. If he visits some of the estates in Grimsby or Hull he would know that the most effective and cheapest way to deal with them is a public flogging. But ‘Dave’ visits completely different sorts of estates at Christmas I suspect. His father in law’s for example, Sir Reginald Sheffield, “Pass the port, dear boy, it was paid for by old age pensioners in Lincolnshire via my wind turbines”. Vote blue, go green then throw up.
The Big EU Jobs Lie
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We really must kill the absurd lie that 3 million jobs depend on the United Kingdom being at the ‘heart of Europe’ whatever that may mean. There has been a massive trade imbalance in Europe’s favour for nearly 30 years our percentage of GDP related to EU trade is about 11% swamped by the cost of complying with EU regulations for the other 89% of the economy.
The argument that political union is necessary to trade is economically illiterate. Such nonsense from Lord Brittain we expect, indeed he is paid to spout it under the terms of his EU pension arrangements (Still undeclared in the House of Lords as an interest) but the other signatories should know better.
Big Government & Big Wind
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A significant number of appeals by the wind turbine lobby are being allowed. Even when all the elected representatives of the people, regardless of political allegiance have said no. The latest on my desk is Kelmarsh. Over turned by a Paul Griffiths, another loathsome lickspittle of big government.
I say again though folks, if you voted Tory/Lib Dem or Labour this is what they promised.
Confused Conservatives... Dizzy Lib-Dems
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Some interesting developments over the weekend, Conservatives have shot up in the polls for a master piece of fake Euroscepticism. Clegg confuses patriotism and democracy with xenophobia and badmouths the institution of marriage. Never has there been a politician so keen to be unelected at the first opportunity. I grew up as an Ovaltiny when the man was usually the breadwinner, most children’s parents were married, truancy from school was rare as was violent crime. Sure, there was not much money, no colour TV, no computers but then nobody stabbed ticket collectors if you didn’t have the fare. Was it better then? Well, yes actually, it was.
A second division Tory has been sacked for going to a fancy dress party dressed as a Nazi, note not for being one, but for dressing as one at a party. Health and ‘greeny’ Fascists are ok, and there is no shortage of them, I suppose it is all a matter of perception. Ironic is it not that sacking for fancy dress at a party is the sort of thing the Nazis would have done.
What was conspicuous by its absence was the lack of reporting on the MPs who had their hands in the till but seem to have escaped prosecution. i.e. our old chum from Rotherham. But I suppose as the heat is now off, the Crown Prosecution Service can continue the celebrations of the Yuletide festivities with their political chums who are fellow graduates of Common Purpose. Trebles and funny handshakes all round as Private Eye might say if they were still a force in the land.
The phenomenon of Clegg continues I quote from his comments at the weekend “it is not the business of the state to tell us how to behave in our private lives’. Well, Cleggy yes, ‘been my point for years, is this new Lib Dem philosophy?
