Keeping you safe from walnuts
Let go of that stem and back away from the cherry.
It's for your own good.
You see, that cherry is officially an unapproved drug, at least according to the Einsteins at the FDA.
Obviously, that makes no sense. But it lead me to ask: If cherries are unapproved drugs, what does that make potato chips?
Also compliments of the geniuses at the Food and Drug Administration: Heart healthy, of course!
Fortunately, there may be a way out of this government-inflicted insanity.
Over-the-counter cherries
Cherries contain antioxidants and other anti-inflammatory components. The scientific evidence behind that statement is irrefutable. But when owners of cherry orchards made those claims and backed them up with links to the evidence, the FDA ruled that the claims "cause your products to be drugs."
Needless to say, none of the orchard owners had submitted their cherries for approval as drugs, so they were not allowed to continue the claims.
Crazy? Oh...we're just getting started.
Last year, Dannon settled a dispute with the FDA by paying out $21 million to several states where they had advertised their Activia yogurt and DanActive dairy drink. In those ads they said the products, "help regulate your digestive system...naturally."
That claim is based on what we know about the benefits of living cultures in probiotics.
But the FDA decided that Dannon was actually claiming that "Activia provided consumers with bowel movements at fixed, uniform or normal intervals." Clearly, that was not the case, but the agency's absurd decision ended up costing Dannon millions.
And FDA officials were just as picky and difficult when it came to walnuts.
They told walnut distributor Diamond Foods that multiple studies showing heart health benefits of walnuts were not sufficient to allow such claims on the Diamond Foods website. Again, the FDA ruled that the health claims classified walnuts as drugs.
Now...if all that seems completely bat-house crazy, brace yourself -- seriously -- because here's what the FDA allows Frito-Lay to say about their products...
"You might be surprised at how much good stuff goes into your favorite snack. Good stuff like potatoes, which naturally contain vitamin C and essential minerals. Or corn, one of the world's most popular grains, packed with thiamin, vitamin B6, and phosphorous -- all necessary for healthy bones, teeth, nerves and muscles."
Potatoes and corn -- two of the WORST foods you can eat, even before the processing begins! But wait -- there's more...
"Our all-natural sunflower, corn and soybean oils contain good polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, which help lower total and LDL 'bad' cholesterol and maintain HDL 'good' cholesterol levels, which can support a healthy heart."
So you CAN'T say cherries provide antioxidants that benefit health, but you CAN clearly tell customers that corn chips help keep bones healthy and potato chips cooked in soybean oil "can support a healthy heart."
That is true lunacy! In any rational world we'd be able to storm FDA headquarters and take them all away in straitjackets.
As I said earlier, there may be a way out of this government-inflicted insanity. But to do it, we have to go through the government.
Two members of Congress recently introduced the Free Speech about Science Act that will require the FDA to let food producers and supplement makers state health claims when they're backed up by sound, science-based evidence.
You can help this important effort by contacting your representatives and senators through "Thomas," a Library of Congress website (thomas.loc.gov).
Let your Congressmen know how vital it is to change these absurd FDA regulations that withhold essential health information and cause companies and growers to spend millions defending ridiculous charges.
I mean, really...aren't there other "unapproved drugs" that are currently putting us at greater risk than walnuts and cherries???
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Anonymous
"Potatoes and corn -- two of the WORST foods you can eat, even before the processing begins!"
You may want to do a little research before making this kind of statement. Potatoes do contain a lot of vitamin C before they are processed and corn is a good source of thiamin, phosphorous, and dietary fiber. Once made into junk food like chips both are of little little value nutritionally, but in their raw form they are far from being "two of the WORST foods you can eat".
Anonymous
How ridiculous can this be do these people get enough oxygen up there? These people get overpaid to come up with decisions such as these, come on, no wonder we are going under. JAM
Earl
Anyone found where on Thomas to post the email?
Anonymous
I think that the major reasons we loose our justified liberties about health is that we try to play by the rules of law and reason where as the our government agencies feel that they don't have to do the same thing. A second reason why we loose is that we just take it like sheeple rather than challenging these agencies to the task so that they must hold the burden of proof to prove us wrong and I mean taking it all the way to the Supreme Court. The third major reason why we loose is that too many of us bicker or criticize each other about very minor and unimportant details rather than really seeing the forest through the trees and acting as one unit rather than people tripping over everyone's elses' opinion and ending up getting no where.
maxxjett
Wanna bet it is all about the money?...That the Frito-Lay corporate staff are hefty donors...and the cherry grove owners and Dannon cannot keep up...Just a thought to ponder and research...The old saying is " Money talks, and the bull walks " ...just my .02 worth.
Alice Wessendorf
Hi Earl,
Try this link to the "Contacting Members of Congress" page on the site:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/con...
Anonymous
Most all corn in any form that you eat now is GMO corn which is enough for me to shy away from corn completely! Bottomline you don't know if it is or isn't GMO corn as it does not have to be listed/mentioned on the package or product itself.
willardf
"contact your members of congress". sorry, can't get them on the phone. they are talking to the lobbyists from the food and pharmacy companies, lining up where the bribes should be sent. "contact your members of congress". get real.
Lori
I was told awhile back by a dietician that I, a certified nutrition educator, would be breaking the law if I told cancer patients to eat berries to increase their consumption of antioxidants. So I can say that berries are loaded with nutrients, but I can't tell them they should consider eating them. I'm supposed to refer them back to their doctor, nurse, or dietician who are the only folks in the state where I reside that can tell them to eat berries. BTW - we've been getting purple potatoes this summer that I've never had before. They're locally grown and purple all the way through. I know they're full of nutrients. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not telling anyone to eat them. I'm just sayin'...
Anonymous
Let me say as a history and legal researcher. If we all be came non resident aliens ( A TERM of their law meaning a MAN or WOMAN they have no control over us and this is why stated by the Solicitor General of the United States
An alien owes no allegiance or obedience to our government, or to our constitution, laws, or proclamations. . A citizen subject is bound to obey them all. In refusing such obedience, he is guilty of crime against his country, and finds in the law of nations no justification for disobedience. An alien, being under no such obligation, is justified in refusing such obedience. Over an alien enemy, our government can make no constitution, law, or proclamation of obligatory force, because our laws bind only our own subjects, and have no extra-territorial jurisdiction.
Over citizens who are subjects of this government, even if they have so far repudiated their duties as to become enemies, our constitution, statutes, and proclamations are the supreme law of the land. . The fact that their enforcement is resisted does not make them void. It is not in the power of armed subjects of the Union to repeal or legally nullify our constitution, laws, or other governmental acts.
SOURCE: The Legal Classics Library War Powers under The Constitution of the United States 1864 tenth Ed Entered by Act of Congress In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts Special Edition 1997.
OutragedinTX
The FDA should come with its own warnng label...'Known to cause insanity from very miniscule exposure. Should be removed from the marketplace at EVERY opportunity. Repeated exposure will cause death.'
What a bunch of retards!!! And some sheeple even believe the dribble that they spew forth!!!
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