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Is There Any Medical Society That Isn't About Selling Drugs?
Submitted by Dana on Mon, 2010-07-12 15:49
Just read an important article on Mark's Daily Apple -- the American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending aggressive cholesterol screening and statins for kids as young as eight. I think statins are dangerous and useless for the vast majority of people on them; I've mentioned here before that my doctor and I have an agreement that if she ever wants to lose me as a patient, she'll try to get me to go on statins. But this! One of the recognized side effects of statins is cognitive impairment. Just what we need in schoolchildren.
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KIDS NEED EGGS FOR BREAKFAST. Eggs have dha necessary for cognitive developement and lecithin for the cholesterol..
My child requests buttered eggs on a regular basis, and I feed them to him. We talk about what is real food and what is not at three years old. . Fruitsvegetables and meat people, not rocket science or a pill.
FYI I am twenty eight and I eat more fat and meat than anyone else I know . I love red meat. Just had my HDL checked - It was 89. My ldl to hdl ratio is less than two. My husband is stuck with me for the duration.