[lcargill99]

So is salt still bad for you this week?

Because you don't hire them to nag you, you hire them to finance certain forms of consumption. None of the numbers about even smoking have held up very well over time. "Lifestyle policing" is, like exercise mania, about vanity, not health. The exercise industry is there to pump up sports medicine spending while assuaging the Baby Boomer terror of death. Go look up which is faster rising, sports medicine or oncology. People have enough information about consumption choices to make informed choices. We should leave them be.

But the point is you hire them, they don't own you.

"The servant is the one that takes the money" - Lawrence of Arabia.