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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 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.”


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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To: Boiling point
When you retire from the Pentagon, you get a job with a defense contractor.

When you retire as an FDA executive, where do you go? How big a welcome would a drug company with large investments in heart medications give to an FDA executive who successfully suppressed information about foods that might reduce demands for their product?

41 posted on 07/21/2011 3:04:21 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: SpaceBar
The FDA is just another rogue agency like the EPA that operates outside any meaningful legal oversight, and needs to be defunded, disbanded, and scattered to the four winds.

FDA is more like TSA - one takes your nuts completely, and the other just fondles them.

42 posted on 07/21/2011 3:04:35 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Joe 6-pack
The gubbermint can have my nuts when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

Joe ,,,ya done went an yet that 6-pack get to ya ,,,, sure about the way that came out

43 posted on 07/21/2011 3:04:45 PM PDT by piroque (Southern born and Raised,)
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To: janereinheimer

“The folks over at FDA clearly have too much time on their hands”

This is why their budget needs to be halved. I work harder and smarter, I think that they should, too.


44 posted on 07/21/2011 3:06:32 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: illiac
Time to head for Costco and buy a 50 lb bag....

Or come out to the east side of my property in the fall and get a couple of tons of them for free.

45 posted on 07/21/2011 3:07:15 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: nralife

46 posted on 07/21/2011 3:07:46 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I do also..with the “red hot intensity of 1000 suns”.


47 posted on 07/21/2011 3:07:50 PM PDT by the lastbestlady (I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
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To: janereinheimer
We know the benefits of Niacin.

Yeah. It gives me the rash from hell when I take it in tablet form. Prescribed? Yes. Will I take it? No.

48 posted on 07/21/2011 3:07:50 PM PDT by bcsco
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To: nralife

For half of my kids and I, this is too close to home. We’re celiacs. Autoimmune disorder which essentially means that foods made from, or with, wheat, barley and rye make us violently ill, among other effects. So salty snacks in our house are things like diamond’s gluten-free nuts, and, on a sort-of related note, blue diamond’s nut thins (awesome crackers made from rice and pecans, walnuts, et cetera).

The FDA needs to be put out to pasture. I don’t have the luxury of randomly grabbing things off the shelf, so I really follow certain manufacturers, and buy their products frequently. I’d hate to lose a good snack here because some gung-holier-than-thou bureaucrats decided they didn’t like someone’s tone. I realize I’m talking about a snack, here. It’s the combination of something we buy that is safe, with a weasely government agency that bugs me. (sorry folks)


49 posted on 07/21/2011 3:07:50 PM PDT by sayuncledave (A cruce salus)
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To: piroque
"Joe ,,,ya done went an yet that 6-pack get to ya ,,,, sure about the way that came out"

At least I'm sober enough to tell the difference between periods and commas, and to remember that questions are usually punctuated with one of these thingies: ?

50 posted on 07/21/2011 3:08:02 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: americanophile

But he was surrounded by Germans ...


51 posted on 07/21/2011 3:08:37 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: nralife

During the Reagan admin. Someone declared ketchup a vegetable for school lunches, and the “news media” had a field day with that, will they ever mention this, I think not.


52 posted on 07/21/2011 3:10:24 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (Girlfriend suggested I use pelosi in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
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To: MHGinTN

;)


53 posted on 07/21/2011 3:12:54 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: albie

Wrongo Albie,

The FDA definitely serves a purpose protecting the public regarding drug safety, and has done so since it’s inception back in the early 1900’s.

Regarding drug products, I definitely give them the benefit of the doubt. If you want examples, let me know.


54 posted on 07/21/2011 3:14:17 PM PDT by onona (I stand with SARAH !)
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To: Danae
Whats next water?

I have a clear recollection of an FDA press flack declaring that "even water can be a drug."

It's all in the labeling. This crap has been going on for decades.

55 posted on 07/21/2011 3:14:17 PM PDT by freespirited (Stupid people are ruining America. --Herman Cain)
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To: jack1165

Wait until they realize the husks can be used as dye! I used to soak the husks in mineral spirits, later used Naptha, to make walnut dye for Maple gunstocks. It was primitive, but the stocks were for primitive weapons. Did a beautiful job! Redman Chaw also made nice dye.


56 posted on 07/21/2011 3:18:27 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: ColdOne
crazy Pictures, Images and Photos
57 posted on 07/21/2011 3:20:39 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: PGR88

Obama appoints the heads of them. And he appoints no one sho is not a committed Marxist.


58 posted on 07/21/2011 3:22:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Publius Valerius
No. This has always been the law of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. With some exceptions, how a product is classified is based on how it's marketed. If you make health claims, you're a drug. If you don't, you're not. Simple as that.
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All, as Publius Valerius stated. This is not new and I would like to add that it is not unusual either. This happens to companies on a regular basis.

The FDA is stepping over the line in many areas recently but not in this area. That can be blamed on congress as much as obummer.

59 posted on 07/21/2011 3:24:31 PM PDT by mrsloungitude (USMC mom)
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To: Publius Valerius

Concur - it’s an abuse but it all revolves around how they label the product. If they claim it does something that falls under the definition of a medical device or a drug then prior to the marketing it must be approved by the FDA. If I woul them I’d do a quick recall of all the newly marked packages and repackage without the claim - it would be a lot easier and would eliminate the FDAs requirement that they get drug approval. Again I don’t agree they should be but that is how they regs have been interpreted for years. sigh....


60 posted on 07/21/2011 3:24:51 PM PDT by reed13
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