Re: Dean Ornish editorial on lowering cholesterol

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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The big drug co's are

working to expand the use of statins and have demonstrated statistical

benefits at progressively lower cholesterol levels. While it's hard to argue

against success perhaps the benefit isn't just cholesterol reduction but

modulation of inflammatory levels. This will get even scarier when they

start selling statins over the counter, and consumers start lowering their

cholesterol whether they need to or not. I hope they do more good than harm.

I agree that the vast majority would be better served by behavior

modification. It is remarkable how self destructive the typical diet is. I

believe it's only a matter of time before the health insurance industry

connects the dots and starts charging based on some combination of BMI and

waist/height ratio.

I for one don't believe in magic... pills or otherwise.

JR

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[Guest guest]

I agree with you, ,

I'm not going to run out and start using a statin, but they seem to be good for anything (tic). The other side of the coin is that some of them are getting rather cheap, less than things like carnosine or other supplements.

Regards.

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From: john roberts

Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 5:39 PM

Subject: RE: [ ] Dean Ornish editorial on lowering cholesterol

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The big drug co's areworking to expand the use of statins and have demonstrated statisticalbenefits at progressively lower cholesterol levels. While it's hard to argueagainst success perhaps the benefit isn't just cholesterol reduction butmodulation of inflammatory levels. This will get even scarier when theystart selling statins over the counter, and consumers start lowering theircholesterol whether they need to or not. I hope they do more good than harm.I agree that the vast majority would be better served by behaviormodification. It is remarkable how self destructive the typical diet is. Ibelieve it's only a matter of time before the health insurance industryconnects the dots and starts charging based on some combination of BMI andwaist/height ratio.I for one don't believe in magic... pills or otherwise.JR-----Original Message-----From: Francesca Skelton [mailto:fskelton@...]Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 10:12 AMsupport groupSubject: [ ] Dean Ornish editorial on lowering cholesterolLower Cholesterol Without DrugsBy Dean Ornish

[Guest guest]

where was this published??

thanks

Jeff

[Guest guest]

Washington Post

on 8/9/2004 8:34 AM, Jeff Novick at jnovick@... wrote:

> where was this published??

>

> thanks

> Jeff

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