Everything I have read about Cholesterol lowering drugs aside from drug
company promotional stuff, says they do not reduce the overall death
rate. In fact they can themselves cause death from side effects. So it
might make a difference or not to one individual, but in studies they
don't reduce the number of deaths. So, maybe one person who might have
had a heart attack didn't have one, but the next guy died from the
anti-cholesterol drug. Even the original longterm Framingham study said
the same thing, but I'm relying on my notoriously unreliable memory.
I've been amazed here at my husband reporting men he works with who've
been put on one of the chol lowering drugs feel like total crap, so then
the doctors put them on something else to relieve those side effects,
then something else to relieve the side effects of the drug given for
the original side effects, and pretty soon the person is taking at least
3 rather heavy duty Rx meds. Not the direction I'd take myself.
sol
Pat wrote:
This is very interesting about cholesterol not being the bad guy.
What about all the drugs out now...do studies not show they lower
heart attack? They sure do think they're wonderful. That was
interesting about bran too....I find though that one spoonful a day is
enough for regularity and I'm pretty certain that the incidence of
diverticula and hemorrhoids is reduced with enough fiber in the diet.
Maybe some people can eat enough veggies and fruits but I've found
only bran or Metamucil wafers (yuck) do the trick.
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