LETTER TO THE EDITOR: More health nonsense from the government

OPINION:

In “The surgeon general and the sun” (Commentary, Sept. 24), Kerri Toloczko points out yet another instance where the federal government is making you sick. The surgeon general is just following a multidecade legacy of health nonsense.

Ever look at the distribution of body-mass index (BMI) for the general population? Not to be too mathematical, but that distribution is lognormal, just like the stock market. Intuitively, you would think that many variables influence stock prices, and you would be right. What the lognormality of BMI says is that you have many compounding reasons why people are sick and fat. In order to destroy the metabolism and health of the human body, you really have to work at it, and do it for long periods of time, and apparently the surgeon general is making the effort.

What happens when your skin is acted upon by those UV rays? You get sulfated vitamin D3, which is water soluble, and also cholesterol sulfate, which forms a protective barrier to microorganisms. What happens when you try to do it with a vitamin supplement? In fact, what happens when you have been eating the low-fat, no-fat food pyramid for the past 30 years? Vitamins D, A, E and K are only fat soluble, so you are out of luck. Basically, the only thing you have accomplished is subsidize the supplement industry, and propped up the reputations of federal government know-nothings who have committed their whole careers to making you sick.

Note that the sulfated form of vitamin D is present in human milk as well as raw cow’s milk. At this point you ought to question everything that comes out of the federal government regarding what you should eat. The corruption, conflicts of interest and monetary kickbacks, not to mention the suppression of clinical trial data, is legendary when it comes to cholesterol and nutrition in general. How could it be otherwise, when the advice says a mother’s breast milk is unhealthy, i.e., it has too much cholesterol, ignoring the D3 sulfate?

SAMUEL BURKEEN

Reston