Posted on 05/01/2012 6:46:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A blogger in North Carolina has been threatened with jail time for “practicing nutrition without a license” by writing about his experiences with diabetes and telling readers what types of food he was eating.
It was in January when the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition told blogger Steve Cooksey, who writes at diabetes-warrior.net, that it was investigating him for providing nutrition care services without a license.
Cooksey was accused of violating Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes, which makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without state permission – a license. According to the law, “practicing” nutrition includes “assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups” and “providing nutrition counseling.”
In February 2009, after being hospitalized with diabetes and wanting to avoid the fate of his grandmother who eventually died from the disease, Cooksey decided to embrace the low-carb, high-protein Paleo, or “caveman,” diet.
As a result of the diet, he was drug- and insulin-free within 30 days. By May of that year, he had lost 45 pounds and decided to start a blog in which he would write about his success.
In January, Cooksey received a call from the director of the nutrition board telling him he was not allowed to offer nutrition advice without a license and that his website was being investigated. He was also told that if he did not comply with the “suggestions” in a 19-page report, his website could be shut down and he could be sentenced to up to 120 days in jail.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Nanny State PING!
Is North Carolina becoming a gulag? This is the same state in which a kindergartener was terrorized at school, her home-made lunch confiscated, and she was made to eat government chicken nuggets. There are many states on the east coast where freedom is dying, and the sheeple are asleep.
Now drop the vitamin bottle and spread 'em!
Too many damned yankees have moved in and started voting liberal on us.
If this guy was not charging for site membership or getting payment from his readers, I’d think this was a case of free speech. Once he charges, then there is “commerce” that is regulated.
Sounds like this is another case of too many bureaucrats. The more enterprising of them, in competition with the others, are looking to boost their accomplishments so that they may get more of a step increase at their next performance review.
The old “licensing” scam, another government takeover of private interactions.
I started to get outraged but then I saw it was WND.
Drug companies stand to lose $$$. Shut the guy down.
I guess the next step will be to charge Michelle Obama with the same violations.
After all - she has been dispensing advice all over the country and her dietetic and nutrition training is pretty much limited to seeing how much Kobe beef, lobster, cheeseburgers, french fries and barbecue ribs she can wolf down on the taxpayers dime.
Apparently, this guy failed to notice that meat has become so politically incorrect that you have to sneak it out of the store in your underpants.
” Too many damned yankees have moved in and started voting liberal on us.”
Vermont...New Hampshire...California.... the south..on & on & on.
Scum
Me too.
Here is an article from a real news organization on the subject:
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8992
Turns out it is pretty outrageous.
they couldn’t really care WHAT he was talking about...it was the potential for an excuse to shut him up that excited them
They’ll try anything to shut us up that We the People let them get away with ...
ping
I would completely agree with the outrage about the government nannies trying to shut him down.
However, as big an issue to me is the report of how the paleo diet has changed his life to one of no insulin dependency. The testimonials of many others has shown incredible changes for the better in their health.
I know a number of people now in my own life who have taken up this primal “diet” and the results have been astounding!
Thanks for the ping!
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