Cheerios Are a Drug? FDA's Surprising Letter to General Mills

Cheerios labels claim that eating the cereal can help lower bad cholesterol, a risk factor for coronary heart disease, by four percent in six weeks.

Citing a clinical study, the product labels also claim that eating two servings a day of Cheerios helps to reduce bad cholesterol when eaten as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, the FDA letter says.

Those claims indicate that Cheerios -- said by General Mills to be the ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - May 13, 2009 - 8:22 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - May. 13, 2009

Mostly humorous, but it signals that truth in labeling may actually be on the table.

I've eaten lots of Cheerios. That did not prevent me from having 90% blocked heart arteries. Cheers.

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