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May 19, 2009  
 
Cheerios® Are a Drug?  -  Why Lower Cholesterol Anyway?
 
by Joel M. Kauffman. Ph.D.
On Wed, 13 May 2009, the following news was made public: U.S. supplements and foods makers cannot make claims to treat or diagnose a disease.

In a letter to General Mills, the FDA said, "Based on claims made on your product's label, we have determined that your Cheerios® Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug."

Cheerios® labels claimed that eating the cereal can help lower bad cholesterol by four percent in six weeks.
 
Why Lower Cholesterol Anyway?
In my opinion, hypercholesterolemia is a made up condition now said to mean that total serum cholesterol is above 200 mg/dL or LDL-C is over 125 mg/dL. This was done to advance the sales of cholesterol-lowering drugs, and Cheerios® incidentally benefited.

A 2004 observational study from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, on 150,000 subjects showed that low cholesterol levels predict premature death in men of all ages, and in women over the age of 50.

This article includes results from another study that is an excellent confirmation that high total cholesterol and LDL-C ( low density lipoprotein cholesterol ) levels are beneficial, certainly in the elderly who are most likely to be prescribed a statin drug.

The emphasis on the value of lowering LDL-C, rather than lowering total cholesterol, is invalidated by this study. LDL-C is not bad cholesterol; it is an essential form!

Read the full article here
 
Dr. Joel M. Kauffman Ph.D. 
Former Professor of Chemistry of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, now Emeritus.
Author of Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths per Year 
 
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Former USAF Flight Surgeon, Former NASA Astronaut, Retired Family Doctor 
 
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