CHOLESTEROL - MYTH AND MARKETING

Mommy Big Pharma is busy busy busy hustling around the media, assuring us that we're all doomed to a horrible and premature death if we fail to take her offerings of dangerous and largely ineffectual cholesterol lowering drugs. She has even gone so far as to persuade the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to recommend prescribing statins for children as young as eight! That's just incredible! How and in what manner did they manage to pay off the AAP? Where on earth is the common sense for Pete's sake? When kids are allowed to get so fat that they begin having health problems, wouldn't it be much more expedient to look at what is causing the problems in the first place - obesity - not "high cholesterol?" And anyway, in spite of what the big drug advertisers want us to believe, cholesterol never killed anybody!

We all need cholesterol; the "bad" stuff as well as the "good" stuff. Learn more about this at lequadrillage. The bare unadulterated fact is that cholesterol is cholesterol and if we have too little of it our liver will work mightily to make more of it; because cholesterol is absolutely critical to life! Take the statin Baycol for example. It worked so well in lowering cholesterol that it had to be taken off the market after killing a bunch of people.

The pharmaceuticals themselves have conducted studies concerning the efficacies of their products. What they're not telling us is that they have been unable to cite a single example of death or serious health reduction in people who had no heart problems but were taking statins anyway after having been sold on them by their doctors, who in turn had been sold on them by Mommy Big Pharma.

This is not to say that statins are totally useless. In fact, they're good drugs that have been overmarketed. Statins are very useful - and life saving - for men - for men who have already suffered a serious heart attack. For women, they're useless, as they are for anyone who has not had a heart attack.

So what to do about your "high" cholesterol? Maybe nothing. The total cholesterol number is meaningless. Get a doctor with the ability to think beyond The Physician's Desk Reference. Having trouble finding one? You can get help at LeQuadrillage. Maybe it is advisable to bring your cholesterol into balance. Again, you can learn more at LeQuadrillage, where unbiased, well researched and documented information is freely available. At the very least, you can get enough information here to enable you to pose probing questions to your doctor.