> Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell wrote:
<snippage> > >Public health would be better served by getting > people > >off their gluteus maximae and cutting down on their > >massive over-eating. I can't give you a figure on > how > >much of the drug budget goes to antihypertensives, > >heart medications, diabetes drugs, stroke therapy, > >and treatment of obesity-related cancers, but these > >conditions are among the top seven causes of death > >in the US (2000). > Which is why one is suspicious when one reads > reports such as this one from > last Wednesday's news: > > STATIN NATION: DO WE ALL NEED TO LOWER OUR 'BAD' > CHOLESTEROL? >...But PROVE-IT may turn out to be the biggest advance > in the war against > cholesterol in a decade. In patients hospitalized > with heart attacks and > other coronary conditions, the researchers found a > rapid and stunning > difference between Bristol-Myers' Pravachol and a > dose of Lipitor eight > times more powerful. After a month, the patients > taking Lipitor were less > likely to be sick and, after more than two years, > they were 30 percent less likely to be dead... Yeah, I'll want to see another large study, and preferably not sponsored by the drug company....Besides, if you *really* want to live longer, go for the significantly-restricted-calories diet -- that makes rats and earthworms (IIRC) live almost twice their normal lifespan! Of course they're hungry their whole lives, but that's surely a small price to pay for longevity, eh? :P Debbi Just Take This Pill And You'll Feel Better Soon Maru __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
