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On Mon, 27 May 2002 20:13:21 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>On Mon, 27 May 2002, Ken Stuart wrote:
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>> I would have hoped it would already be well known in this group that
>> high cholesterol has no real connection with any illness - see:
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>> http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm
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>I am certainly familiar with that web site, as well as the book,
>but the claim you have made is not what Ravnskov says. His point
>is that high cholesterol has not been shown to play a *causal*
>role in any illness, but he doesn't deny that it can be a
>*marker* of other health problems.
That's unfortunate, because it still leaves room for continued marketing
on television of intrusive and abusive pharmacological substances.
Aside from seeing a barrage of Lipitor advertisements during any CNN
newscasts, while I was in line to buy some supplements at a pharmacy
recently, I discovered that everyone in line in front of me was filling
a prescription for Lipitor.
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Cheers,
Ken
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