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FDA says walnuts are illegal drugs

Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:49 PM

Walnuts have been eaten by humans since the old stoneage and have never been found to be harmful to anyone. Even so, the FDA, which pretends to protect the public recently proclaimed that walnuts are an illegal drug. Moreover, I know of at least 50 published scientific studies that describe the health benefits of walnuts. None of this seems to matter to the bureaucrats at the FDA. You see there is a law on the books that was passed to protect big pharma from any competition from food or supplement manufacturers that says no health claims can be made no matter how much research has been done to prove health benefits of any product that is not a drug the FDA has passed judgement on.

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More on the high cost of drugs and their side effects

Steve Seater CN, CPT: Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2012 5:50 PM

As you undoubtedly discovered from reading my last blog, I am not a fan of the FDA. Not only are the drugs the FDA approves needlesly expensive, but many are unsafe. Often when people are diagnosed with a serious disease they discover that there is no cure simply because the FDA has erected so many roadblocks. Not long ago, a US House of Representatives investigation revealed that the FDA was in need of a comprehensive overhaul, and that it failed to keep abreast of new scientific findings and that it actually could not fulfill its mission.

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Our Government is the cause of soaring health care costs.

Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 3:25 PM

Our federal government is already saddled with an enormous unfunded liability for Medicare. The most recent estimate is $24.6 trillion and no one knows where the money to cover these costs will come from, especially since the government collects a mere $2 trillion a year in Medicare premiums. How big is a trillion dollars? To get an idea of its gargantuan size convert that sum to seconds and guess what year it was a trillion seconds ago. No it wasn't 1492, the year Colombus discovered America. It wasn't even 5,000 BC when the Pyramids were built.

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