Thalidomide is back on the menu, boys! 
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Looks like MAHA got thrown under the bus by the corporate lobbyists…
US to drop guidance to limit alcohol to one or two drinks per day, sources say
Summary
- Americans have long been told to drink two or fewer drinks per day
- New guidelines due as soon as this month
- Expected to include brief statement on limiting drinking
- Alcohol industry faces growing scrutiny of health risks
June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. government is expected to eliminate from its dietary guidelines the long-standing recommendation that adults limit alcohol consumption to one or two drinks per day, according to three sources familiar with the matter, in what could be a major win for an industry threatened by heightened scrutiny of alcohol’s health effects.
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Do people take that much notice of government recommendations?
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Individually, no, I don’t think so. But these recommendations do have influence over a long time because they filter through doctor education, continual professional development, training courses, the newsletters they receive, the patient brochures and booklets and pamphlets, the little statements added into news articles (like “recommends 150 minutes of exercise per week”, “5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day”) etc etc, all of which filter into common knowledge.
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Generally not, but some of these get printed on the package so it gets imprinted in people’s consciousness.
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The irony of this is that one of the objectives of MAHA, was the supposed elimination of entrenched establishment practices that are actually unhealthy and so restoring integrity to governmental recommendations thus presumably increasing trust in this free from undue influences official institutions when it comes to health - no more dodgy vaccine mandates and recommendations based on commercially influenced scientific advice etc.
Meanwhile what actually happened is a wholesale disregard of good scientific practices, an open door to every kind of conspiracy nuttiness and rampant commercial lobbying. Whereas before I was generally of a “trust but verify” attitude to governmental health recommendations, with the advent of the MAHA reign, I have zero trust in current government health initiatives. What trust I had in institutions is now completely gone, as I regard this as a “inmates have taken over the asylum” situation. All bets are off.
What a journey it has been. After 67 years on this earth, never did I think we’d get to the point of actual farcical regression of public health policy into a prescientific era of superstition and chemtrails. Do not take civilization for granted. Shocking collapse is always a present danger. Meanwhile precedents are broken at such a clip, it’s a challenge to keep up with lowering expectations. Where it will all end up, I’m afraid nobody knows.
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Thalidomide is back on the menu, boys!
Literally shaking right now.
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Isn’t that what his base will think?