FDA Panel OK’s Statins in Healthy People – ABC News.
Once again, the federal government, under the guise of the FDA, is telling the “heatlhy people” (men over 50 =, women over 60 that do not have a history of heart disease) to take Statins – and not just any statin – but Crestor – to prevent heart attacks.
It’s bad enough that many people have to take medications due to the inability of doctors to tell their patients “No, don’t eat that” or “no don’t drink or smoke that”. It’s even worse when none of the doctors have any background or education in nutrition. But the worst thing that they could do is put healthy people on serious medications.
Read the article and weep…
–Pat