RE: New study shows Striking Benefits Found in Ultra-Low Cholesterol

[Guest guest]

Oh Sharon,

I heard that on npr this morning. The " report " sounded more like an

advertisement for statins to me. You can hear it on Morning Edition on the

radio or: http://news.npr.org Click the " Dramatic Benefit Found in Low

Cholesterol " link.

Deanna

So now, when you go to the doctor he is most certainly going to demand

that you to take one of these classes of drugs.

" The findings should prompt doctors to give much higher doses of drugs

known as statins to hundreds of thousands of patients who already have

severe heart problems, experts said. In addition, it will probably

encourage physicians to start giving the medications to millions of

healthy people who are not yet on them, and to boost dosages for some

of those already taking them to lower their cholesterol even more,

they said. "

All in the name of profit.

Sharon

[Guest guest]

Now they're going to be pushing statins even harder than before. Going

to the doctor for even minor things is going to end up like sitting in

one of those seminars for a time-share. Every patient is going to be

hammered into submission, until they agree with the doctor.

I saw both articles as advertisements, too. The drug manufacturers

funded the study.

I'm really disgusted, as I am sure many of you are. We really need to

take back the medical community. Oops, maybe I should add Politics to

the subject line.

Sharon

> Oh Sharon,

>

> I heard that on npr this morning. The " report " sounded more like an

> advertisement for statins to me. You can hear it on Morning Edition

on the

> radio or: http://news.npr.org Click the " Dramatic Benefit Found in

Low

> Cholesterol " link.

>

> Deanna

>

[Guest guest]

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I'm really disgusted, as I am sure many of you are. We really need to

take back the medical community. Oops, maybe I should add Politics to

the subject line. - Sharon

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No Sharon. Taking our medical community back would be taking the politics

out of medicine.

It is disgusting that only one side of this story is exposed. My Dad is

taking statins. My mother was, but we talked her out of it. Now they

recommend that basically everyone should be taking them past a certain age?

And there's no outcry about this in the mainstream?

When profiting off of illness obscures any thought of common sense

prevention of disease, then it's time for a major paradigm shift in the

world of medicine.

Deanna