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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 25 Oct \ on: I'm Matthew Lysiak - Author of Fiat Food! LFG! AMA

Loved the book! Thanks for writing it.

QUESTION 1 -

I used to not drink coffee. Then maybe 15 or so years ago (I had read so many stories about how healthy it was) I started drinking coffee.

Now I'm wondering - all these studies, about how great coffee is for your health - were they real? Or were they all manufactured, industry-supported studies? I'm suspicious, now that I know how bad the "science" was/is.

QUESTION 2 - This quote from your book

According to a passage from Robert Samuelson’s The Great Inflation and its Aftermath, the President then directed the US Surgeon General to issue a phony warning about the hazards of cholesterol in eggs. The actual evidence that eggs were unhealthy never existed.

...intrigues me. Did you find any independent evidence of this story, about the President tell the Surgeon General to make up bad health news about eggs? Do you happen to know how the author Robert Samuelson found out about this?

68 sats \ 1 reply \ @Matthewlysiak OP 25 Oct

Appreciate the question - hope this helps ---"When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs." - this is from an aide to LBJ Joseph Califino as quoted by Robert Samuelson in the Great Inflation and its aftermath

68 sats \ 0 replies \ @Matthewlysiak OP 25 Oct

Oh - on the studies about coffee -- I haven't pulled them -- but Im skeptical. I know a lot are industry funded studies -- I think the probability is that coffee (like a lot of plants) is fantastic in medicinal settings -- but I was to the point where I drank 24 ounces a day --- not medicinal. Addictive.