I’m not sure if this is Political Correctness gone amuck or….well…there is no other comparison.  This is just ridiculous. 

Michelle Malkin had a link to this article:  

According to a letter from the FDA General Mills’ advertising violates the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The agency said claims that Cheerios ingredients can lower cholesterol within a certain amount of time, all while providing cancer-fighting and heart-healthy benefits, essentially makes Cheerios "a drug" by their definition. And no drug in this country can be legally marketed without an approved new drug application.

In a statement issued Tuesday, General Mills said this dispute is over language, not science. The company pointed out that the FDA’a complaint doesn’t actually question whether Cheerios can help lower cholesterol levels — it only talks about how the health benefits are advertised.

Doesn’t the FDA have better things to do than worry about the small print on a cereal box?  They allow real drug commercials to run through the side affects of any given drug as fast as possible or with the smallest print available, but Cheerio’s can’t say something that has already been proven to work because it is cereal and not a drug?  Huh?

So what does the box of Cheerios say?

“As part of a Heart-Healthy diet, the soluble fiber in Cheerios may reduce your cholesterol!”

“Three grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat foods, like cheerios, in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease.  Cheerios has 1 gram per cup.”

The American Heart Association has approved the message that is on these boxes and has even put their seal of approval of the boxes.

My thoughts – if the American people are so stupid that they can’t figure out that cheerios is not a drug and it is not offering a cure then we don’t need the FDA trying to rearrange the wording on a cereal box.  We need to go back to the school systems and figure out why we are a society of non-self-thinking morons.