What if your back yard eggs got the "Cheerios" treatment by the FDA?

[MichiganWoods]

I eat regular and honey nut Cheerios, and will continue to do so.

I never ate it for the "lower your cholesterol" benefit anyway. They don't put all those funky hydrogenated or high fructose ingredients into it.

 

[Davaroo]

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OMG, I think I love you! It's pork chops and gravy for dinner tonight...

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

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OMG, I think I love you! It's pork chops and gravy for dinner tonight...

Ooooo....gravy, bad, bad.....

 

[kinnip]

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Are we related?

As for cereals, they are all garbage. Extruded cereals are all unhealthy. And since lower cholesterol means a mortality INCREASE (especially for older women), all these claims are useless.

Cholesterol does not cause heart disease. Cholesterol is what your body uses to REPAIR arteries. It causes clogs and problems when you have inflammation due to ingesting sugars (and grains are basically sugars).

Lowering your cholesterol to prevent heart disease is like trying to put out a house fire by shooting the firemen as they go in the door.

Thank you ma'am! Will you please explain that to my doctor?

 

[Wifezilla]

OMG, I think I love you! It's pork chops and gravy for dinner tonight...

Just make sure you use heavy cream to make that gravy. If you thicken it with flour or corn starch, that's what causes inflammation and you are right back to the problem you are trying to avoid.

Thank you ma'am! Will you please explain that to my doctor?

He would laugh at me. He got one whole hour of nutritional training in med school and knows everything the drug companies tell him don't cha know!

 

[Sock Puppet]

I had honeynut cheerios for breakfast

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

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You will die of something sooner or later, I chose not to worry about it to much!

 

[Wifezilla]

I would have liked to not have to worry about it, but my blood pressure was so high I could have stroked out at any minute. I thought dying in my 40's was a little premature.

I may very well take up eating cereal again when I am 90

 

[AngieChick]

Playing devil's advocate here:

I just read my Cheerios box (yum!) and I can see where the FDA is coming from. I mean really, it alone will lower your cholesterol in just 6 weeks? Amazing!

Now, as part of other dietary changes, I could see it has a place. The wording on the box make it seem as if it alone is responsible (like a drug). And I'm sorry, if you are going to make claims that your products are a drug, then you will have to be regulated like a drug. Some marketing person decided to push the envelop to see how far they could get away with the wording in their claims, and they just found out.

The mainstream media's coverage of this story is silly, it must be a very slow news day. They hype everything up in search of drama and ratings.

 

[ChicknJ]

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swing by and pick me up, I'm in for this one!