[SuziQ]

The agency said that claiming the cereal can lower cholesterol levels by 4 percent in six weeks amounts to marketing it as a drug and violates the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

Cholesterol can be lowered with diet and exercise. I'm an example of that. I didn't eat Cheerios; I ate hot cereal that was an oat and multigrain mixture, but my cholesterol went down over 20 points in 5 months.

General Mills has every right to tout the cholesterol lowering capabilities of it's Cheerios cereals, because they have data proving it. They aren't claiming it's a drug.

[aruanan]

The agency said that claiming the cereal can lower cholesterol levels by 4 percent in six weeks amounts to marketing it as a drug and violates the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

Those utter shmucks in the FDA need a good pounding or something. Eating food can lead to muscle growth, weight and height gain in a large segment of the population but claiming that doesn't amount to marketing the food as an anabolic steroid because it's just what kids do when they get supplied an adequate amount of food.

[aruanan]

I’m afraid Barry Obama is our very own amalgam of Robert Mugabe, Jimmy Carter, Rachel Carson, Karl Marx, and Pol Pot: a blend of every kind of nuttiness with absolutely no sense of proportion or respect for any truth higher than “whatever promotes what I want is right.”