Licensing Monopoly

When [Steve Cooksey] was hospitalized with diabetes in February 2009, he decided to avoid the fate of his grandmother, who eventually died of the disease. He embraced the low-carb, high-protein Paleo diet, also known as the “caveman” or “hunter-gatherer” diet. The diet, he said, made him drug- and insulin-free within 30 days. By May of that year, he had lost 45 pounds and decided to start a blog about his success. 

That blog has created legal trouble for Cooksey. Because of licensing laws, Cooksey could be looking at jail time. Read the entire Carolina Journal article here and some of Dr. Terrell's comments on licensure here.