FDA out of control

Apparently, walnuts do not help with comprehension of consumer laws.

If Diamond is going to claim that walnuts have the efficacy of a drug, then they fall under the purview of every rule and law administered by the FDA. 

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

Pretty much sums up where we're at.

Not even close.

There was a time when cigarettes were advertised by doctors claiming all the health benefits found in smoking.  Corps cannot be trusted.  Diamond knows better, but chose to be stoopid.  

Ditzy,

If you had read the article, you'd know that several studies agreed with the conclusion on walnuts.

As to the smoking studies, no there weren't. 

Studies???  Who cares about studies.  Certainly not the FDA.  There is process and a procedure to make claims such as Diamond made about their walnuts, and they knowingly ignored the requirements. 

"There is a process and procedure...", an indication of a federal agency deserving of a budget cut.  I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

http://www.time.com/time/photo...9307,1848212,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slidesh...how_ready_index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slidesh...how_ready_index.html

Allrighty then.

The source behind the claims of health benefits is the "Life Extension Foundation", a complete gathering of quacks.  Feel free to Google

No, Life Extension wrote an article about walnuts. Among sources cited were:

"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.”

Improve reading comprehension!

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.”

You can search the US National Library yourself.  I could not find any peer-reviewed articles making any claim about walnuts.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/libserv.html