Of the all the headlines in the newspaper proporting the newest research findings as as "ground breaking" and "life saving" a new study by
The University of Michigan Meical School and VA Ann Arbor Health System really is ground breaking because of its de-emphasis on LDL levels (bad cholesterol) and dogmatic administration of statin drugs for an approach which takes into consideration the persons overall risk for heart disease.
"We’ve been worrying too much about people’s cholesterol level and not enough about their overall risk of heart disease," Rodney A. Hayward, M.D., director of the Veterans Affairs Center for Health Services Research and Development and a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School With the number of people taking a statin drug rising daily and the incidence of heart disease progressing at an even greater rate (notice I didn't say dying because we do have the most advanced life saving procedures in the world) you would have thought intellegent people would have caught this little snafu a long time ago.
"...if your LDL cholesterol is high, but your overall cardiac risk is low, taking a statin does not make sense for you,” Hayward says. “If your cholesterol is your only risk factor and you’re younger, you should work on diet and exercise.”I believe if we ate less complex carbohydrates and indulged our bodies in a little bit of exercise,long advocated by men like
Art De Vany ,there would be much less heart disease, obesity, diabetis,arthritis etc.
This particular study published in the February 2009 issue of
The New England Journal of Medicine and critiqued with the skill of a surgeon by
Dr Michael Eads, found that low carbohydrate diets increased the good cholesterol(HDL)more than the diets that had higher carbhohydrate levels.
Work Smarter Not Harder!
Dr. David Marcon
Cincinnati, Ohio
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