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There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular. Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it's organic. I state my bias here just so you'll know I'm not anti-health food. The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore. I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of...

SAN DIEGO - Michael J. Ellis, a convicted felon who founded Metabolife International Inc. and built it into a diet empire selling a now-banned herbal supplement, was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of illegally possessing firearms and ammunition. Ellis, 52, who has a drug-related conviction for his role in a methamphetamine lab, is barred from possessing either weapons or ammunition. Prosecutors accused him of possessing guns and ammunition at his 200-acre cattle ranch east of San Diego in Julian, including three loaded handguns, a .22-caliber rifle and more than 600 rounds of ammunition. Federal authorities found the weapons during a...