I've been tempted to start it, especially being a Pittsburgh resident. That hospital (AGH) is where I had surgery for a traumatic knee injury, and holds a special meaning to me.

Ugh, and now revisiting a minor subconscious belief that artificial food dyes can't possibly be *good* for you. Like, at best, they're neutral and at worst, they're a health risk. He must be wrong here in some way, right? Anti-depressive color therapy psyche benefits?
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/rf...

Thanks for sharing. Didn't have time to read the whole paper, but yes looks like the underlying publications it referenced may have been cherry picked and not from reputable sources.

Though I can't say I revisited it long. It is more of a knee-jerk "ok, so this must be bad, right? How am I wrong about this? Kids dietary freedom? Maybe they do need high calories? Is Big-Cola the good guy?"
The deliberating faded quickly. Sometimes even an idiot gets some good ideas.

Yes. That we shouldn't subsidize school meals packed with sugar z including soda.

Cite your evidence, please?
NIH (2024):

"Seventy-two studies assessed the association between fluoride exposure and IQ in children. Nineteen of those studies were considered to be high quality; of these, 18 reported an inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ in children."

Fair point. I think they were mostly mandatory for school attendance? I guess the only way you could truly opt out of many vaccines was if you didn't send your kids to school.

Also read an interesting counterpoint that Calgary tried removing flouride from the water supply, with bad dental results.

Also worth noting, and something I didn't read about until today, apparently there's a correlation between water flouridation and lowered IQ in children. There are some outstanding questions of concentration levels, but still disturbing evidence.

ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/...

Why stop with flouride? Why not supplement our water with Vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, iron, Vitamin D? The thing many Americans don't get enough of. It would be for the greater good!

Again, there's a difference with vaccines - they're opt-in.

You don't need to be well off or have a nice bathroom to brush your teeth. We're talking a material supply of like $4/person/year, which is actually not much more than it costs to floridate water.

The problem here is that there's no opt out, other than buying bottled water. The default is broken.

How do you visually demonstrate capacity? Any example visuals?