Government guidelines regarding "bad" cholesterol levels for those at risk of a heart attack or stroke have changed once again and are now even lower than prior recommendations. The proposed solution: More intensive drug therapy. These new recommendations could be applicable to millions of Americans.
Based on a study involving 50,000 patients, the recommendations were revised to include any patients that fell in the high risk category to keep their cholesterol levels under 70 milligrams per deciliter. This was a further decrease from recommendations made back in 2001, which recommended high-risk patients to keep their levels under 100.
Who is Considered a High Risk Patient?
Anyone who has the following conditions:
Anyone With at Least two Factors:
Researchers stated they realized reaching this cholesterol goal might be impossible for some people, especially considering that only 5 percent of women in the U.S and 2 percent of men have cholesterol levels under 70 and the overall average in the U.S is 130.
USA Today July 12, 2004
This gives the drug companies another tool to forcefully advocate use of their drugs to lower cholesterol into very dangerous low levels. These "experts" are absolutely clueless as to the foundational causes of heart disease.
Cholesterol is only an innocent bystander and using drugs to control a symptom is a sure fire solution to worsen the problem. The most obvious is the reduction of coenzyme Q10 that occurs to everyone consuming statin drugs. The less obvious ones are the side effects and complications that result when using a drug Band-Aid solution rather than treating the cause of the problem.
The recent Baycol recall is a classic example.
The way to lower heart disease risk is to address foundational causes. Some of the most effective ways to do this include:
"Rotating Eggs"
The right yellow appears to rotate counterclockwise while the left one clockwise.
Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka
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