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