What Doctors Don't Tell YouIndividuals who have systolic hypertension and high levels of blood cholesterol in midlife appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in later life, report Fin ...
STATIN ALERT: It's new, and it may be dangerous
Does a high cholesterol level increase the risk of a heart attack? Medicine seems unable to come up with a definitive answer to this seemingly simple question, and two new studies do little to res ...
More on the cholesterol debate (WDDTY Vol 3 No 1). ...
The new evidence debunking cholesterol lowering isn't license to tuck into bacon and chips every day. As a number of writers demonstrate, the problem is that medicine has probably fingered the wr ...
Many of us could do with a major rethink of our daily dietary fat intake. For some, this will mean cutting back while, for others, it means reorganising our diets to eat more or different types of fats.
Lowering serum cholesterol levels may actually increase the risk of death from stroke, recent research suggests. ...
Doctors may be pushing statins like mad for everything from osteoporosis to Alzheimer's disease, but patients aren't having it. Although the use of statin drugs has increased fourfold between 1996 ...
Medical experts have finally agreed that cholesterol-lowering drugs are being given out unnecessarily to people. ...
The latest medical word on heart disease is: if you want to reduce your risk of heart disease, forget low fat margarine, stick to butter, and eat plenty of walnuts. ...
