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Disturbing: Kids on Statins?

Monday, July 23, 2012

I just read a rather disturbing article on the ongoing debate between US doctors regarding children being tested for high cholesterol and prescribed statins:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2
012/07/23/kids-cholesterol
-tests_n_1694562.html


There is still the widespread insistence that high cholesterol leads to heart disease, even though the lipid hypothesis makes no real sense:

chriskresser.com/cholest
erol-doesnt-cause-heart-di
sease


Most worrisome to me is that children as young as 10 years of age could be prescribed statins....

www.dailymail.co.uk/news
/article-2176795/Statins-P
atients-ditching-cholester
ol-lowering-drugs-painful-
effects.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


The current trend of pathologising and prescribing pretty serious medications to children is truly scary. This is happening with adults as well, but as adults, most of us can choose whether or not to take a prescription drug.
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DOWNEASTB 7/24/2012 9:55AM

    Vhal, that's the first thing I thought too.

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LYNDALOVES2HIKE 7/24/2012 9:29AM

    But, Kitty, it's so much EASIER to take a pill than to eat right and exercise!
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JUSTBIRDY 7/23/2012 9:50PM

    yuk! let's just give them muscle-wasting even earlier


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ARLENE_MOVES 7/23/2012 8:18PM

    I pulled myself off a statin because I had so much pain in my legs I could hardly walk. Since off, NO PAIN.

Big pharma is definitely behind this - money, money and more money.

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-LINDA_S 7/23/2012 7:42PM

    You can't tell me Big Pharma isn't behind this. It's more than disturbing, it's disgusting and going at things totally backwards! It's lifestyle, you idiots, not a statin deficiency!

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VHALKYRIE 7/23/2012 3:53PM

    Oh that's fantastic. We'll have a whole generation who get Alzheimer's in their 30s. Which means I'll never get to retire because my generation will be one of the last with a functioning brain.

Comment edited on: 7/23/2012 9:45:36 PM

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