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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...

Recent weeks have offered a rich harvest of new "health" threats with splashy headlines warning us about the supposed dangers from processed meats, hair dyes, and tanning parlors. While all of these stories are all a little odd, perhaps the oddest is the one about how meat increases the risk of stomach cancer. This story was featured on the networks and in several major papers. One news outlet even went so far as to tell its readers just how much bacon they could eat before being at risk for cancer! What makes the meat and stomach cancer story odd from...

MEXICO CITY -- Squeezed behind the wheel of his bright green Volkswagen Beetle, Ignacio Montealegre gazed down at his protruding belly and succumbed to a moment of nostalgia. "I used to be slim. But then I got married and had to work so hard, I stopped playing soccer and got fat," said the 230-pound taxi driver. "At the end of the day, I go home, eat quite a lot and go to sleep in front of the television." Montealegre is a man of his time and a lumbering testament to a major new health challenge facing his country. According to...