Big Pharma's Lunatic FDA Says Cherries Are Now DRUGS

[Guest guest]

I just wanted to pass this on to show involvement of the meddling Big Pharma.

 

Mary Lou

 

Big Pharma's Lunatic FDA Says Cherries Are Now DRUGS

 

From Mary Sparrowdancer

sparrowdancer1

3-11-7

 

Jeff - Here's something interesting: according to the FDA, cherries

are now drugs.

 

I've been looking into tart cherry juice concentrates today. I've

found that there is one type that contains all sorts of natural

antioxidants, plus a bunch of other good stuff, including melatonin

and more. This type of cherry is called the Montmorency cherry.

 

People are taking the concentrate or eating the cherries for pain

which about 2/3 of the US now has due to fluoride poisoning...and

those savvy to the cherry benefits are discontinuing prescription

drugs as a result. They're claiming it's also healing all sorts of

things, including cancers, gout, arthritis.

 

Looking closer, nearly all of the many companies I looked into this

afternoon have received WARNING letters from the FDA stating that

because of their claims about the healing properties of tart

cherries, the cherry juice and/or cherries are therefore considered

to be a " drug, " and the vendors must file a " New Drug

Application. " What crap is this!!!!!!!!

Big pharma must be very, very scared about tart cherry juice. I am,

therefore, going to order some right away.

 

Here are two examples of FDA letters - note that they specifically

cited the suggestion that the consumer can stop taking prescriptions

if they will begin taking tart cherries in some form.

 

Anyway, it appears that as long as food is empty of all nutrients,

then it is " food " - but if it has any health-promoting nutrients or

benefits at all, then it is considered a new drug in the US, hence a

" New Drug Application " must be made.

 

http://www.casewatch.org/fdawarning/prod/2005/seaquist.shtml

http://www.casewatch.org/fdawarning/prod/2005/overlake.shtml

 

Here's the list of all of them, dated 2005. The firms are all still

advertising the same health benefits on their sites, so I guess

they've given the FDA a Bronx raspberry re the Montmorency cherry scandal.

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/chrylist.html

[Guest guest]

How interesting!

 

Cheeries also contain melatonin!

 

Efficacy of a tart cherry juice blend in preventing the symptoms of muscle

damage.

 

CONCLUSIONS: These data show efficacy for this cherry juice in decreasing

some of the symptoms of exercise induced muscle damage. Most notably,

strength loss averaged over the four days after eccentric exercise was 22%

with the placebo but only 4% with the cherry juice.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=Abstra\

ctPlus & list_uids=16790484 & query_hl=3 & itool=pubmed_docsum

 

 

On 3/13/07, Mary Flanigan <queenonmountain wrote:

>

> I just wanted to pass this on to show involvement of the meddling Big

> Pharma.

[Guest guest]

Long before I read anything about it, I discovered on my own that fresh

cherries reduce my pain and lessened fatigue (probably because they

also made my muscles feel stronger). I have CFIDS and FMS.

 

Fresh strawberries also help me. I have not heard of anyone else with

CFIDS or FMS being helped by strawberries, but they help in my case.

(Some people did report adverse reactions to strawberries.)