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Walnuts Are ‘Officially’ Drugs – Frito-Lay Still Healthy
Last year, the FDA hassled Diamond Foods Walnuts about claims on the packaging that stated omega-3 fatty acids in walnuts have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. Despite medical research to back up the “claims,” the FDA is insisting these drugs (their words) are a type of misbranding.
The FDA, however, does not feel the same about junk food companies like Frito-Lay, which to this day makes bold health claims about their products, such as Doritos under the “Health” tab.
Frito-Lay snacks start with real farm-grown ingredients. 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.
And it’s not just the obvious ingredients. Our all-natural sunflower, canola, corn and soybean oils are considered to be healthier oils by the FDA because they contain good polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, which help lower total and LDL “bad” cholesterol and maintain HDL “good” cholesterol levels. They also contain <20% of the bad saturated fat, which raises LDL, cholesterol and 0g fo trans fat. Even salt, when eaten in moderation as part of a balanced diet, provides sodium which is essential for the body. [emphasis added]
As long as hydrogenated oils are genetically modified, a company can make a health claim. We can’t make this up.
~Health Freedoms
Walnuts are DRUGS! FDA makes bizarre claim after seller says they ‘reduce risk of heart disease and cancer’
They may just be the hardest drugs on the market, if the FDA are to be believed.
A company which sells walnuts has been told they are dealing in drugs because their packaging suggests health benefits which the Food and Drug Administration has not approved, it has been reported.
A fiercely-worded letter from the agency allegedly insisted Diamond Foods, from Stockton, California, remove the health claims or send off for a new drug application if it did not wish to be closed down.
The nut company has been selling its products with packaging which states the omega-3 fatty acids in walnuts have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and some types of cancer.
But while the claims are backed up by research, including 35 published medical papers supporting assertions that eating walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce risk of heart attacks, the FDA is said to have insisted the company is ‘misbranding’ its foods because the ’product bears health claims that are not authorised by the FDA’.
The letter from the FDA reportedly stated: ’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.’
It went on to emphasise that the nuts are ‘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.’
Critics have slammed the FDA for the supposedly ‘tyrannical’ manner in which they have accused the walnut sellers of dealing in drugs.
William Faloon, from Life Extension Magazine, said: ’The FDA’s language resembles that of an out-of-control police state where tyranny [reigns] over rationality.
‘This kind of bureaucratic tyranny sends a strong signal to the food industry not to innovate in a way that informs the public about foods that protect against disease.
‘While consumers increasingly reach for healthier dietary choices, the federal government wants to deny food companies the ability to convey findings from scientific studies about their products.’
By PAUL BENTLEY
Sources:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018807/Walnuts-DRUGS-FDA-makes-bizarre-claim-seller-says-reduce-risk-heart-disease-cancer.html#ixzz1THNvNzoV
http://www.fritolay.com/your-health/whats-in-our-snacks.html
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Corporate fascism and profitable sickness care for everyone!
A great lesson in how to create a new drug without spending millions to prove your drug works. To get a new drug approved by the FDA, it must be provable to kill the user at certain levels due to consumption of said drug. I do not think walnuts could qualify by this standard, therefore can not possibly be considered as a drug as claimed by the FDA.
It’s really very simple:
1. The FDA has been given the authority — or has been allowed to take upon itself the authority — to be the sole, Federally-empowered, arbiter, of what foods shall or shall not be permitted on the U.S. market.
2. In that process, the FDA is entirely correct in policing the authority of food-producers/distributors/marketers to make any claims whatsoever about those particular foods and food-products.
3. Thus, even the use, by those food-producers/distributors/marketers, of such descriptors as “wholesome”, “delicious”, “tasty”, “refreshing”, “invigorating”, “thirst-quenching”, “satisfying”, and the like, not only imply conditions that are entirely subjective and which therefore may vary widely from one person to another, but which also can be legitimately interpreted as, in fact, MEDICAL claims, e.g., claims that promise a certain effect upon a person’s HEALTH.
4. Consequently, maintaining this train of logic, the FDA can (and apparently wants to) assert its total regulatory control over ALL U.S.-based (though foreign sources are reportedly also in the FDA’s sights) foods and food-products.
5. So shouldn’t we all be happy with this situation? Just because our freedoms, and our health, and our abilities to make our own choices, as to what foods we can have access to, and about what foods we can eat, and about what food-products may be unsafe to eat (such as GMO-based products), and about what the legitimate scientific-research says about those foods and food-products, and about our rights to NOT have our rights trampled upon by a draconian and arguably out-of-control Federal agency, are all being forcibly disintegrated right in front of our eyes — why should any of THAT mean that the above line of FDA-empowerment-logic is any the less valid?
6. In short: What, exactly, is wrong with this picture? Who, or what elements, exactly, have allowed — or intended — for it to become what it now is? And what can be done, exactly, step-by-step, to set things right and to bring more than just “a semblance” of our related rights back to us all?
Another reason we need true campaign finance reform–so that the President and congress aren’t “owned” by the companies that give the big bucks to their campaigns. The FDA rarely does anything in the interest of consumers. Smaller companies are pushed out and the obnoxious multi-nationals that contribute to campaigns dictate the rules.
Walnuts don’t kill, Big Pharma does! The FDA like the USDA are nothing more then Power Brokers to Big Corporations. Neither organization represents the tax payer at all.
How many of you are now going to vote something other than Dem. or Rep. my guess…ZERO…complaining on a website will not fix the problems people.
I have to wonder about those who work at the FDA and how much money they receive under the table from big pharma etc…..
In years gone by the FDA has shut down vitamin/ health food shops – In one instance when they wanted to shut down those who sold amino acids (which actually appear naturally in the human body – bit I digress) They went in with guns ablazing.
We are cursed with Health Canada as you are in the US with the FDA. A farmer was shut down in Kitchener Waterloo for selling raw milk to customers – He had been doing this for 30 years……and the RCMP burst into his farm house with guns! This farmer has been charged and may do jail time! So both the US and Canada are in fact police states – there is no longer any freedom
“Canola, corn and soybean oils are considered to be healthier oils by the FDA because they contain good polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats”
This statement is blatantly and demonstratively FALSE. The FDA knows this.
All of these oils are now GMO. No one cognizant of the health issues surrounding GMOs will touch them with a ten foot pole. The FDA knows this.
All these oils are heated to 473 F in commercial processing; the polyunsaturated oils are COMPLETELY and TOTALLY destroyed by this heat, turning them toxic. You cannot heat the omega oils much above 300 F without destroying them. The FDA knows this.
The FDA is a criminal organization.
Processing Temperatures for most Processed Supermarket vegetable Oils
212 F Oil pressing
300 F EFAs begin to be destroyed
392 F EFAs totally destroyed
419 F Oil kept at temperature for 15 minutes produces atherosclerosis in animals
473 F Oil Deodorization all refined vegetable oils undergo this step
482 F Transfat Hydrogenation
The mostly Denatured Supermarket Oils
Any Refined Oil even otherwise healthy oils i.e. walnut
Canola oil (See Canola Oil Protocol)
Corn Oil
Cottonseed oil
Safflower Oil (Safflower Oil Protocol) can be healthy oil if cold pressed and unrefined
Soybean Oil (See Soybean Protocol)
The Good Supermarket Oils
Olive Oil (See Olive Oil Protocol)
Possibly Others
http://healthyprotocols.com/fat_1.htm
“The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being.” ~World Health Organization Constitution
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S 510 (now HR 3082) Food Safety Modernization Act, as adopted by the US Senate on Nov. 30, 2010.
“There is No Right to Consume or Feed Children Any Particular Food; There is No Generalized Right to Bodily and Physical Health; There is No Fundamental Right to Freedom of Contract.” ~US Dept of Health & Human Services and US Food & Drug Administration, 2010
http://foodfreedom.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/fda-no-right-to-food-health-contract.pdf
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” ~Declaration of Independence
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
Obviously this is about protecting the intersts of big agri and pharma industries who among other corporations, especially the banks, own congress and the president, and be decfacto any offices they may fill, I.E the federal courts and yes the FDA.
Yes information of this type is good but as one person so apply already pointed out the vast vast majority of the population is going to either vote republican or democrat, and more often than not out of fear the other party with get in. And so the mass manipulation of the public continues.
So what is it we can truly do? We can do two things. We can educated ourselves and others and then vote with our dollars. This is much more powerful than our electoral vote will ever b. Starve the powerful as much as we can and the powerful will become all that much less powerful.
The FDA doesn’t get any better. They just get heavier-handed. They transcend administrations. As we learn more about the foods and supplements that are life-protecting, they make efforts to restrict access or at a minimum, knowledge about those substances. Meanwhile those with the deepest pockets write the scripts for the New York Times, and Congress.
We screwed ourselves when the amount of money you spend on candidate’s elections was equated with freedom of speech.
Why not apply for a “drug” patent for walnuts? Beat them at their own game….
So…is anyone able to call this little “discrepancy” (between the labels on Diamond Walnut and Frito Lay) to the FDA’s attention? It certainly does need to be pointed out to them!
I am sick of companies making misleading claims about their products. Drink this everyday because it can be good for digestion. What they don’t tell you is that if you don’t get the correct “bio” product there is a high chance it will do you more harm than good. How about the old classic. Put this cream on your face and all your wrinkles will go away.
It’s about time someone started taking a stand against these people whose only interest at the end of the day is making money. They aren’t interested in our health unless it makes a buck or two.
Go FDA!! Don’t just stop with walnuts.
Small wonder that the FDA has their own hired guns.