What Doctors Don't Tell YouChlorine is regularly used in our public water supply to combat infectious waterborne diseases, but it may be doing more harm than good. A public notice issued in Washington, DC, warned that a high level of bacteria
Heart problems still constitute a major health concern in the West - and almost as worrying are the heart drugs employed for lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol. But even major at-risk groups can avoid drugs, while still reducing their...
Q:Everyday, I read in the paper about how cholesterol lowering drugs have now definitely been shown to save lives. My doctor is pressing me to take pravastatin because my cholesterol is slightly e ...
The cholesterol myth is difficult to bury (WDDTY, vol 3, No. 1) despite increasing evidence that high cholesterol per se is meaningless as a marker for heart disease risk. A study carried out in ...
A dietary fibre called guar gum can reduce cholesterol levels by up to 26 per cent, new research has discovered. ...
One of the reasons that medicine is so befuddled about this entire cholesterol business is its insistence upon searching for an isolated area where, dietetically speaking, we've gone wrong. In do ...
HEART RISKS: Is another urban myth toppled?
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THE STATE OF THE DRUGS INDUSTRY, PART II: Were Bayer holding out?
More evidence of adverse effects due to low cholesterol levels has emerged in a study carried out in Hawaii. ...
