OT Prescription Cheerios?

Well, as I haven't had my breakfast yet, I will have a bowl of Honey
Cheerios, in defiance of ridiculous assertions!
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In message , NightMist
writes


http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Popular..._05122009.html


Yeah.
Right.

I am starting to think that unless something is made entirely of
chemicals that have been extensively tested on kittens, and found to
cause no less than 18 different health problems in at least 50% of the
population, that the government will find _something_ wrong with it
somewhere along the line.

NightMist

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Best Regards
pat on the hill

Taria, are your Honey Cheerios still 'Honey Nut? I have noticed that
ours are now only 'Honey', presumably because of the high incidence of
nut allergy? There is still the caution about 'made in a factory where
nuts are also used in production', but there are no nuts in the
ingredients any more?
(I love them too).
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In message , Taria
writes
My guess would be it has something to do with campaign contributions
to somebody at some point or lack there of. You want to mess things
up put some arm of the govt. in the middle of it. I guess more
regulations printed on the side of cereal boxes would mean different
reading material. I just had a thought. If Cheerios are a prescription
will they be on the formulary? Will walmart sell us a months worth for
$4 ? I really like the honey nut cheerios. They probably have mostly
sugar and little honey. The govt. wanst to tax sugar products. Wonder
how that would all work out. This is all pretty wacky.
Taria

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Best Regards
pat on the hill

They waste their time and our money on the stupidest things! I've
known this almost 30 years when I read they spent 6 months trying to
figure out which came out ketsoup of the bottle fastest. At the time I
wanted THAT job!
Does anyone else remember the "oat bran" debacle?
No - let's not spend our money on birth defects or cancer etc! But we
can blame our politicians all we want - we elect these people!
Geez - me being political!!

Judy from Mass

On May 13, 11:17*pm, Megan Zurawicz wrote:
The problem is, where do you draw the line?

Frosted Flakes cures cancer? *Is that okay to claim?

If not, why not? *What's the difference?

That sort of claims by products that aren't tested for or regulated for what
they claim is one of the reasons we got the FDA in the first place: there's
a risk if you accept that it's okay to tell someone "got high cholesterol?
Ignore your doctor telling you you need to change your diet; ignore your
doctor telling you you need to take a prescription. *Just eat Cheerios,
that's all you need." *And of course that risk is that people will follow
such claims to their deaths rather than get the treatment they need.

The point of the story isn't "Cheerios need to be prescription." *The point
is "you can't make medicinal claims for your product without it being
tested." *If the line isn't drawn, you have open quackery----which is in
part what got us the FDA in the first place.

--pig

On 5/13/09 23:05, in article , "Polly

Esther" wrote:
Don't see my earlier response appear so I'll try to repeat.
* * The FDA truly needs more guidance at the top. *They should be focused on
what foods make it to market that contain melamine or rat poison or who
knows what. *I don't have a problem with Cheerios and also Quaker Oats whose
home company is located in Chicago claiming cholesterol lowering ability.
Kinda straining at gnats methinks. *Aren't you proud I remembered how to
spell gnats? *Polly

"Megan Zurawicz" wroteI don't think that's the point here. *The point is
that by saying it lowers
cholesterol et cetera, the FDA is saying "this product WHICH DOES NOT HAVE
TO BE TESTED, AS YOU CALL IT A FOOD is being actually MARKETED AS A
MEDICAL
TREATMENT."

Bottom line is you can't have it both ways: if you want to claim your
product (whether Cheerios or Betty's Framizams or whatever) has medical
benefits, you have to submit it to testing by the FDA as a medication. *If
you claim it's exempt because it's a food or a supplement or what have
you,
you cannot then claim it has medical benefits. *Because those claims then
stand untested and unproven by anyone.

--pig

The worst part of this, though, is Cheerios - or whoever - will
somehow get to that doctor and tell HIM/HER to tell you to eat those
Cheerios, not because of the FDA, but the company propaganda itself!

(If I hear one more about Miralax...! It used to be Colace. And that
purple pill - they were pushing that big time a few years ago. If we
have all these problems we probably need a prescription that for some
anyway is covered under insurance instead of all this OTC stuff and
guessing games. OTC gets expensive!

Judy from Mass

Organic foods contribute to a healthy well-being... and help prevent
cancers caused by the harmful pesticides/herbicides used in traditional
farming.... does that mean that all organic foods are drugs?

Bananas are excellent sources of potassium. A diet that contains sufficient
amounts of potassium may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and stroke.
Are bananas drugs??

Blueberries - New research suggests blueberries are a great way to
naturally lower risk factors for cancers. Does that mean that blueberries
are drugs??

Chocolate - Chocolate is made from plants, which means it contains many of
the health benefits of dark vegetables. These benefits are from flavonoids,
which act as antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from aging caused
by free radicals, which can cause damage that leads to heart disease. Dark
chocolate contains a large number of antioxidants (nearly 8 times the number
found in strawberries). Flavonoids also help relax blood pressure through
the production of nitric oxide, and balance certain hormones in the body.
Does that mean chocolate is a drug??

Red Wine - In the mean-time Newsweek recently reported 4 more reasons to
drink red wine (in moderation):
* It can keep you fit;
* It may help fight Alzheimer’s;
* It boosts heart healthy Omega 3 levels;
* It may lower lung cancer risk.

Please remember when it comes to any alcoholic intake–you must act
responsibly. Too much of a good thing can be bad. With all the negatives
surrounding alcohol/wine uses and abuses -- they pick Cheerios to make a
point of? Why not challenge the Wine Makers -- or require FDA approval on
wines?

When you turn on the news and hear report after report of the growing
deficit... it burns me to no end when I read that my (and your!!) federal
tax dollars are being spent on things like this. I would much rather have
taken the value of the time of each federal employee involved in preparing
that report.... and used those $$ to buy Cheerios... and fill the local food
banks.

Why isn't the FDA addressing the high cost of drugs -- and why so many
senior citizens do not take their meds because they cannot afford them?
When will people wake up and address the REAL problems that plague us today?

Okay -- off my soapbox... but come on people... Cheerios is a drug? How
can anyone say that with a straight face?

--
Kate in MI
http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves



"NightMist" wrote in message
...


http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Popular..._05122009.html


Yeah.
Right.

I am starting to think that unless something is made entirely of
chemicals that have been extensively tested on kittens, and found to
cause no less than 18 different health problems in at least 50% of the
population, that the government will find _something_ wrong with it
somewhere along the line.

NightMist
--

Legolas is my house elf

So.... if I eat blueberries and drink wine then I don't have to quit
smoking? How 'bout blueberry wine???

Leslie (with tongue firmly in cheek!) & The Furbabies in MO.

"Kate in MI" wrote in message
...
Organic foods contribute to a healthy well-being... and help prevent
cancers caused by the harmful pesticides/herbicides used in traditional
farming.... does that mean that all organic foods are drugs?

Bananas are excellent sources of potassium. A diet that contains
sufficient amounts of potassium may reduce the risk of high blood
pressure and stroke. Are bananas drugs??

Blueberries - New research suggests blueberries are a great way to
naturally lower risk factors for cancers. Does that mean that blueberries
are drugs??

Chocolate - Chocolate is made from plants, which means it contains many of
the health benefits of dark vegetables. These benefits are from
flavonoids, which act as antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from
aging caused by free radicals, which can cause damage that leads to heart
disease. Dark chocolate contains a large number of antioxidants (nearly 8
times the number found in strawberries). Flavonoids also help relax blood
pressure through the production of nitric oxide, and balance certain
hormones in the body. Does that mean chocolate is a drug??

Red Wine - In the mean-time Newsweek recently reported 4 more reasons to
drink red wine (in moderation):
* It can keep you fit;
* It may help fight Alzheimer’s;
* It boosts heart healthy Omega 3 levels;
* It may lower lung cancer risk.

Please remember when it comes to any alcoholic intake–you must act
responsibly. Too much of a good thing can be bad. With all the negatives
surrounding alcohol/wine uses and abuses -- they pick Cheerios to make a
point of? Why not challenge the Wine Makers -- or require FDA approval on
wines?

When you turn on the news and hear report after report of the growing
deficit... it burns me to no end when I read that my (and your!!) federal
tax dollars are being spent on things like this. I would much rather have
taken the value of the time of each federal employee involved in preparing
that report.... and used those $$ to buy Cheerios... and fill the local
food banks.

Why isn't the FDA addressing the high cost of drugs -- and why so many
senior citizens do not take their meds because they cannot afford them?
When will people wake up and address the REAL problems that plague us
today?

Okay -- off my soapbox... but come on people... Cheerios is a drug? How
can anyone say that with a straight face?

--
Kate in MI
http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves



"NightMist" wrote in message
...


http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Popular..._05122009.html


Yeah.
Right.

I am starting to think that unless something is made entirely of
chemicals that have been extensively tested on kittens, and found to
cause no less than 18 different health problems in at least 50% of the
population, that the government will find _something_ wrong with it
somewhere along the line.

NightMist
--

Legolas is my house elf

From all of us that care about you:
YOU NEED TO QUIT SMOKING YESTERDAY.
That is yelling and nagging. Put the damn
cigs down. You can do it. for those
that love you please do it.
Taria


Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. wrote:
So.... if I eat blueberries and drink wine then I don't have to quit
smoking? How 'bout blueberry wine???

Leslie (with tongue firmly in cheek!) & The Furbabies in MO.

On May 13, 10:15*pm, (NightMist) wrote:
The FDA decided that low fat foods that contained sufficient oat bran
to qualify could indeed use that labling back in 1997.

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9701/21/nfm/index.html

In view of that, their letter makes no sense.

NightMist

Exactly how I see it. It's all so dumb. The FDA said then that
products containing
X amount of oat bran could make the claim that they "may reduce
cholesterol when
combined with a lowfat diet." IIRC that's what the Cheerios commercial
does say.
So all this bruhah is because someone *might* think it's a miracle
cure and thus,
instead of bothering to see a doc, just decides to eat Cheerios
instead? I mean,
really. Who does that? The same people who iron their clothes while
wearing them?

Sherry