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Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA
The New American ^
| Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:10
| Michael Tennant
Posted on 07/21/2011 2:35:09 PM PDT by nralife
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 didnt 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.
Diamonds 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofda; codexalimentarius; diamondfoods; drugs; fda; nannystate; napl; nuts; nwo; thenewamerican; walnuts
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:35:13 PM PDT
by
nralife
To: nralife
Oops! This is an excerpt! Click the link above for the full article!
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:36:32 PM PDT
by
nralife
(www.fireholder.com)
To: nralife
The FDA has become a globalist Marxofascist tool of NAZI-originated “Codex Alimentarious,” as adopted by the United Nations.
Now there’s something to Web search....
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:38:56 PM PDT
by
unspun
(It's the Sovereignty, Stu... | We are Gulag Bound)
To: nralife
I hate the Obama administration more every day.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:39:23 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: nralife
Make that “Codex Alimentarius”
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:39:28 PM PDT
by
unspun
(It's the Sovereignty, Stu... | We are Gulag Bound)
To: nralife
Just like FDA to interfere in the consumption of healthful food. If it ain't junk they don't want it.
BTW, the Seventh Day Adventist church has a number of folks on unusual diets. Years back a scientific study was done of a group of SDAs who ate a cup of nuts a week. They had no cardiovascular disease of any kind.
FDA does not want you to know that of course.
6
posted on
07/21/2011 2:39:54 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: nralife
And I say nuts to the FDA.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:40:02 PM PDT
by
DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
(Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
To: nralife
Walnuts are drugs? Seriously, would we even notice if the size and scope of government were to halved overnight?
8
posted on
07/21/2011 2:40:29 PM PDT
by
Hawk1976
(It is better to die in battle than it is to live as a slave.)
To: nralife
So now the FDA is taking my nuts! Ouch!
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:42:08 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: nralife
Time to head for Costco and buy a 50 lb bag....
10
posted on
07/21/2011 2:42:38 PM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: nralife
The FDA is no better than the EPA or the IRS. It’s been misleading this country since it’s inception. The “food pyramid” was absolute BS. They’ve approved drugs that have caused great harm to people and continue to operate as Marxist nanny state “organization” designed to put private business, out of business.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:42:38 PM PDT
by
albie
To: nralife
Cloward-Piven at work for you.
Overwhelm the system with regulations.
Bring it to it's knees, shoot it in the head, then start wiping out the excess population the system supported.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:42:43 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
To: nralife
I learned a long ago to never think you've seen everything. Nasty-gram from the government to a
walnut company threatening to regulate their nuts as drugs?
The story would be funny, if it wasn't so infuriating. The people we have "governing" our once free nation are a bunch of damned goons who need to be stopped.
13
posted on
07/21/2011 2:42:55 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: nralife
Are prescriptions needed?
Are they to ONLY be available (the first of select foods)
for the Congress, Obama and his family, the SEIU elite,
and those of color and sufficient gayness or crossdressing?
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:43:15 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain)
To: nralife
One of millions of examples of why 'government' has grown way too big and far too intrusive. This is how bureaucrats, drunk with power, kill perfectly legitimate businesses, all the while pretending that it's for 'our safety'. We have got to stop this. Elect conservatives.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:45:02 PM PDT
by
Jim Scott
( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
To: nralife
This is nuts. FDA should be abolished as a gov't agency and replaced with a model similar to Underwriters Laboratories.
They should only publish test results and let consumers make their own choices, not make laws.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:45:18 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Hawk1976
“Seriously, would we even notice if the size and scope of government were to halved overnight?”
Can you imagine waking up in the moring and smelling - freedom?
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:45:35 PM PDT
by
patton
(I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
To: nralife
These effing lefty nannies have to be disposed of.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:46:03 PM PDT
by
crosshairs
(Peace through superior firepower.)
To: Hawk1976
Seriously, would we even notice if the size and scope of government were to halved overnight? Yes. Our lives would be simpler, fairer and far less frustrating.
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:46:50 PM PDT
by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
To: nralife
Doesn’t EVERY food provide SOME benefit? Doesn’t any food provide some protection against starvation? We need to rein in these safety Nazis post hast!
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posted on
07/21/2011 2:47:25 PM PDT
by
Boiling point
(Cain / Palin 2012)
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