Statin Drugs: An Unhealthy Money Making Con Based on the Cholesterol Hoax

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsvnP1V5m6U]

• Statin Drugs: An Unhealthy Money Making Con Based on the Cholesterol Hoax
  by Paul Fassa, http://www.tbyil.com/  
  (The Best Years in Life) Not long ago a few doctors were promoting that statin drugs should be issued with with fast food meals. But who would be paying for them? Statin drugs are huge money makers for Big Pharma. Would they have been free of charge with five “happy meals”, or would they have been extra, or even worse, opened and sprinkled onto junk food.
  –
  The issue of cholesterol as a precursor to heart disease is a myth that just won’t go away. And it’s not only with mainstream media and medical practitioners, the promotional phrasing for even supplements often include “lowers cholesterol”, and many alternative health writers still write about that. Maybe it works for marketing within those convinced of the cholesterol hoax, but unfortunately it also reinforces the myth.
  –
  Recently, a Time magazine article featured a report on a Finnish study that concluded men on statin drugs for six years had a 46% increased risk for developing diabetes.
  –
  “It’s a good news-bad news scenario,” Dr. Robert Eckel, past president of the American Heart Association and professor of medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine told Time.
  –
  “Although there is convincing evidence that patients on statins are at increased risk of new-onset diabetes,” Eckel continued, “the benefit accrued [from statins] in reducing risks of heart attack, stroke and fatal heart disease trumps the effects of being new onset diabetics.”
  –
  Well, Dr. Eckel authority guy, statins are based on the bogus theory that high cholesterol readings lead to heart attacks. More and more health experts, even cardiologists, are recognizing this faulty theory that has put many in danger of dementia and death. Despite decades of low fat foods and diets to lower cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular problems have been on a rapid rise for decades.
  –
  read more.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0M4xp8Ao6w]

end