fatnews.com Hi, this is Larry Hobbs @ FatNews.com. LarryHobbs@fatnews.com ” ‘It’s almost impossible to find someone who believes strongly in statins who does not get a lot of money from [drug] industry,’ says Dr. Rodney A. Hayward, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.” This is a quote from the cover story in BusinessWeek from January 17th, 2008 titled, “Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?” Hi, this is Larry Hobbs @ fatnews.com “The NCEP’s 2004 guideline update garnered headlines by recommending lower targets for bad cholesterol, which would put more Americans on the drugs.” “But there was also a heated controversy in the medical community over the fact that 8 of the 9 experts on the panel had financial ties to industry.” ” ‘The guideline process went awry,’ says Michigan State’s [Dr. Henry C. Barry, associate professor of family medicine].” “He and 34 other experts sent a petition of protest to the National Institutes of Health, saying the evidence was weak and the panel members were biased by their ties to companies.” The same thing is true for the definition of high blood pressure. -Larry Hobbs The cutoff points are wrong. We’ve been lied to by the drug companies so they can sell more drugs, but main stream medicine hasn’t realized this yet for either cholesterol or for blood pressure. I consider it immoral that the drug companies lie in order to convince older people that, “You better take our drugs or else you’re going to have a …
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