US Doctors Urge Wider Use Of Cholesterol Drugs

[Indi Guy]

75. Big Pharma has been telling us BIG LIES for decades...

This just one of countless reports that show that the cholesterol scare was entirely manufactured out of whole cloth by the drug industry:

[font size="6" color="darkred"]THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL SCAM[/font]
By K.L. Carlson, MBA

[font color="darkblue" size="3" face="ariel"]Cholesterol guidelines have been created to increase pharmaceutical profits, not to improve peoples’ health.  I know from my experience as a pharmaceutical sales representative for a statin drug.  We were trained to emphasize to physicians the new lower LDL guidelines that were ostensibly created by health experts. The truth is the majority of the experts who created the lower guidelines have multiple financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.  One expert was found to have ties to ten drug firms.

There is no research that supports the assumption that lower LDL cholesterol reduces cardiovascular events or death in people who have do not already have heart disease. Statins do not prevent heart disease, but that is the myth that the drug companies have made billions of dollars from for more than 20 years.  The lower guidelines simply created a larger lasso to rope more people into buying statin drugs.

“The diet-heart idea – the notion that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease – is the greatest scientific deception of our times…[font size="4"]The public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the century[/font],” states George V. Mann, ScD, MD, the co-director of the well-known Framingham Heart Study.  In the study more than 240 risk factors for heart disease were uncovered.

The fact that statins, brand names Crestor, Lescol, Lipitor, Mevacor, Pravachol, Vytorin, and Zocor, are not the heart disease preventing wonder drugs that drug companies want physicians and the public to believe is not the worst of it. [font size="4" color="darkred"]Both men and women with the lowest cholesterol levels died earlier of all causes, including cardiovascular events...[/font][/font]

Full article -- http://diaryofalegaldrugdealer.com/the-great-cholesterol-myth/

Sources:

Ray Monihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness, How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients (New York:Nations Books, 2005) pp 7-8.

“Coronary Heart Disease: The Dietary Sense and Nonsense,” edited by Dr. George V. Mann, M.D., (New York:Veritas Society, 1993)

“Cholesterol Skeptics and the Bad News About Statin Drugs,” by Maryann Napoli,
www.medicalconsumers.org/pages/cholesterol_skeptic.html

“Yet Another Study Show Low Cholesterol Increases Risk of Early Death!” by Chris Gupter,
www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/06/08.html

“Cholesterol and All-Cause Mortality in Elderly People from the Honolulu Heart Program,” by Irwin J. Schatz,M.D. et al, The Lancet, vol. 358, no. 9279, pp. 351-355.

www.marchofdimes.com/aboutus/10651_11516.asp

Duane  Graveline, M.D. at www.spacedoc.net

“Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven’t Been Told About Cholesterol-Lowering Medicines,” by Mary Enig, Ph.D. and Sally Fallon, at www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/statin.html

“A Call for Caution in the Rush to Statins,” by Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2008