Unfortunately your second link is all too true. The other dirty little
secret are the payments taken by physicians acting as shills for device and
drug makers. Shameless.
Charlie
Full Disclosure: I have on occasion taken bagels and cream cheese from a
reference lab courting for business.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you're a true doubting Thomas you might stop to ask why you should be
> concerned about cholesterol at all... other than maybe it should be
> higher. This is one of many papers that show that for elderly people
> (this study says 71 and up) the higher your cholesterol the longer
> you'll live. It considers not just heart disease but total mortality.
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11502313>
>
> Other papers say the same for all but middle aged men. And no paper
> ever published has ever shown that cholesterol is a heart disease risk
> factor for women of any age.
>
> How did we get to where we are on the subject? Probably this:
> <http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138
> >
>
>
> On 6/21/2012 4:07 AM, SwissPace wrote:
> > will do a cholesteral check before and then 3 months after HIT to see if
> > it really works due to my doubting Thomas side
> >
> >
>
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