I blame Florence Henderson. She gave the parents of these youngsters a Wesson Oil fetish that they never shook.
So it’s “good news” that more and more adults are taking anti-cholesterol drugs?
Check this out:
http://www.oralchelation.net/heartdisease/ChapterFive/page5g.htm
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watch out for Statin Drugs.....they can cause more harm than good.
More consequences of the fast-food, drive-thru, on-demand lifestyle that’s increasing daily.
I think the whole high cholesterol scare is a hoax. I know too many very healthy and active people who report high cholesterol to believe it is really some sort of health crisis. If you’re fat, out of shape, and don’t eat right chances are you’re going to get sick. Cholesterol schlmesterol.
Everybody is “sick.” Who benefits?
Somehow homo sapiens has made it for at least 100,000 years without cholesterol drugs.
IMO this is just as insane as giving children Ritalin.
To get your cholesterol down where some doctors want it, you have to take statins. The human body cannot get the cholesterol down that low. I stopped taking the statins because they made me feel like I had the flu all the time. Statins can kill you......why else do they have to check your blood all the time? New reports are coming out showing that cholesterol does not cause heart attacks. Really look into this before taking statins.
More young adults ought to be eating oatmeal for breakfast!
Not me, no way. My cholesterol topped out at 200 back in 2001 and I’ve lowered it, naturally, to well under 150. I simply changed my diet, drastically reduced my fast food/fried food intake, and started eating oatmeal every morning.
Thinking of Burgess Meredith in “Grumpier Old Men”: “I’m 95 years old and you bring me this sloppin’ foam (light beer)? Every day for breakfast I smoke a cigarette and I have a pound of bacon! For lunch I have a bacon sandwich! For a midday snack I have more bacon....a whole damn plate! And I usually drink my dinner! According to all those flab-belly experts, I should’ve took a dirt nap years ago. Yet they keep dyin’, and I’m still here!”
Just wondering.
“We won’t be satisfied until every man woman and child throughout the world is on these important medications.”
My 26-year-old wife takes a cholesterol drug — Welchol — but not for cholesterol. She needs it to be able to halfway digest fats, ever since she had her gall bladder out. (Any Freepers know home remedies for that?)
Who to believe?
My son was about 6 when the pediatrician noticed his cholesterol rate was on the rise. She recommended oat bran and I started adding it to a lot of stuff I was making. His cholesterol was back to normal next check up.