EXACTLY, Jim!!!  Great analogy!!!  Causation would be the freaking drug companies...it's very profitable to lower the "association" (ie cholesterol), rather than the cause.  Eliminating the cause would only put money in the organic farmers' pockets, oh dear, we can't have THAT.
   
  Love,
  Bren

Jim Swayze <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Low cholesterol is associated with cancer. And high is associated 
with heart disease. But association is not causation. To use an 
analogy, high cholesterol is like bandages at the scene of a bloody 
accident. They certainly didn't *cause* the bloody accident and 
lowering the amount of them is foolishness.

Jim



       
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