Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA

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Seen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately? According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that the FDA didn’t approve, it sent the company a letter declaring, “Your walnut products are drugs” — and “new drugs” at that — and, therefore, “they may not legally be marketed … in the United States without an approved new drug application.” The agency even threatened Diamond with “seizure” if it failed to comply.

Diamond’s transgression was to make “financial investments to educate the public and supply them with walnuts,” as William Faloon of Life Extension magazine put it. On its website and packaging, the company stated that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts have been shown to have certain health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. These claims, Faloon notes, are well supported by scientific research: “Life Extension has published 57 articles that describe the health benefits of walnuts”; and “The US National Library of Medicine database contains no fewer than 35 peer-reviewed published papers supporting a claim that ingesting walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce heart attack risk.”

This evidence was apparently not good enough for the FDA, which told Diamond that its walnuts were “misbranded” because the “product bears health claims that are not authorized by the FDA.”

The FDA’s letter continues: “We have determined that your walnut products are promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs because these products are intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease.” Furthermore, the products are also “misbranded” because they “are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners; therefore, adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely for their intended purposes.” Who knew you had to have directions to eat walnuts?

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http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/8294-walnuts-are-drugs-says-fda
 
Meanwhile, Faloon points out, foods that have little to no redeeming value are advertised endlessly, often with dubious health claims attached. For example, Frito-Lay is permitted to make all kinds of claims about its fat-laden, fried products, including that Lay’s potato chips are “heart healthy.” Faloon concludes that “the FDA obviously does not want the public to discover that they can reduce their risk of age-related disease by consuming healthy foods. They prefer consumers only learn about mass-marketed garbage foods that shorten life span by increasing degenerative disease risk.”

Faloon thinks he knows why this is the case. First, by stifling competition from makers of more healthful alternatives, junk food manufacturers, who he says “heavily lobb[y]” the federal government for favorable treatment, will rake in ever greater profits. Second, by making it less likely that Americans will consume healthful foods, big pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers stand to gain by selling more “expensive cardiac drugs, stents, and coronary bypass procedures” to those made ill by their diets.
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Fuck the FDA
 
"This just in, the air around you is a drug 'as it prevents death', and we shall start charging you for it and require a valid prescription"

The FDA is going DEA.
 
This is nothing new, and truth be told, they are trying to make this specific walnut maker follow the letter of the law in regards to making health claims. The real story here is how Frito-Lay can put "Heart Healthy" on a bag of chips.
 
the FDA is just all about money why is it that more and more the US is trying to control everything you do
 
I saw this a while back. It is completely ridiculous. The FDA, like all other areas of the government, are in the pocket of big business. They will not allow distributors of natural products to state completely true and valid claims about the physiological effects of their product because it competes with big pharma's pill pushing agenda. Once again, the bottom line dictates policy and public health suffers.
 
I can't see why they can't call them "nutritional supplements", like they do with every other quack medicine on the market.

But I guess it's politics as usual at the FDA.
 
and on the reverse, I can buy things controlled as drugs as long they are not labelled for such use (i.e. nitrous oxide for food or industrial use, oxygen for use as welding process gas and halohydrocarbon anaesthetics for use as non flammable solvents) But label walnuts as having a certain lipid and WHAM!
 
The FDA is filled with nothing but revolving door politicians - former big food CEOs/investors, and others from the food industry motley crue, like biotech firm CEOs and the like. The FDA exists to deregulate big pharma and big food/big agri, while destroying small business, personal freedoms (involving , and the raw food movement.

anyone here read www.naturalnews.com? im not a fan of mike adams' sensationalism, but you can learn quite a lot about the FDA there in a few quick spurts.

Also check out the documentaries "A Poisoned World" and "The Future of Food," also "The World According to Monsanto," and youll see what a monster the FDA is.
 
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