Comments on: Cholesterol Drugs For Kids Recommended

Study Strongly Suggests Some Children Receive Medication To Stem Future Heart Problems

[hamiltongrad]

While blaming the kids or parents, there are some kids with MEDICAL problems, that could need attentions:
1. PCO or polycystic ovaries. Too much insulin that does not work, a pre diabetic, medical condition. Starts at puberty. The good news, if you can fight it off with very restricted diet and tons of exercise, like a pre diabetic, you may be ok in your 20s.
2. METABOIC SYNDROME, or SYNDROME X- more likely in Hispanics, more fatty guts. Not there fault, same diet for Asian kids would have no bad effect. So, same thing, have to be identified.

If these conditions are allowed to take hold, by the 30s, diabetes may follow.
It is not always the fault of parents or kids, but with these conditions, our unhealthy life style has to be replaced by a more rigorous, and many times not happy regimen of diet restriction and exercise way more than the "AVERAGE" kid has to endure.

[meinnv]

displeased, You are so correct. Soda is cheaper than even "good" bottled water, believe it or not. I don''t drink form the tap since our water here makes me quite ill (I won''t even disgust everyone with how bad it is). And, those $1 menus are more affordable than say a $5 salad. When you''re on a budget or limited income, you can''t pay $5 when you only have $2. That isn''t even feasible. It is sad that the better foods are more expensive. Some of us "poor" people don''t have a choice.

COLONIEny, with regard to the breakdown of the "traditional" family, I do agree with you. However, my so-called father walked out on my mom and me and didn''t look back. He wanted to go, and didn''t pay child support. That wasn''t my mother''s fault that he wanted an older woman (10 years older than him). We had to make do with what we had. We didn''t have a choice. My mom got married, had a child, husband left, didn''t pay child support. Sometimes we had meals of just Top Ramen because that was all she could afford; either we ate that or we didn''t have a place to live.

[mangymomma]

Nobody is to blame but the PARENTS. Wake up!

Unplug the computer.
Turn off the TV and video game.
Tell them to GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY.
Bypass McDonalds.
Buy fresh fruits and vegetables rather than cookies and donuts.

That is a whole lot easier and HEALTHIER than pumping drugs into your children.

[displeased]

in fact, buying fruits and vegys are a lot cheaper than fast food places.
Posted by jetlizhan

I don''t know jetlizhan. A two liter bottle of soda is cheaper than OJ. Potato chips are cheaper than salad greens, most fast food joints have dollar menus. And not to mention this cheaper *** full of fat and sodium is more satisfying to a hungry appetite. I would personally like to see junk food taxed and the revenues used to subsidize the high costs of healthier foods. But that would be too complicated.

[drinuk]

It really has become apparent that Big Pharma have become far too powerful, their corruption knows no bounds and it is time they were stopped in their tracks. Time to Chop Off Their Heads.

[denn034]

As if those kids haven''t been vaccinated enough already. Sheesh!!!!

[panhandlpete]

When the national health care program arrives, the Drs will have laid the groundwork for ALL the population to be on some kind of medication......and if you don''t take it, they won''t want to be your physician.

What are we? Zombies........

Let''s educate kids, and parents, too, on eating foods you prepare yourself.....grow it if you can. Eat less and EXERCISE more should be the motto of the day. Take no prescription medicine without doing your own research on the side effects.

Back in the days past, kids got so much more physical activity at school and at home, so get them out and active for their health''s sake.

[jetlizhan]

I AGREE WITH YOU AERODOG!!! in fact, buying fruits and vegys are a lot cheaper than fast food places. so parents, listen up - hit the farmers markets this week and forego the easy and quick way out. you''re killing the kids.

[alphaa10-2009]

FEEDLOT NATION PREDICTABLY OBESE

CBS reports "Study Strongly Suggests Some Children Receive Medication To Stem Future Heart Problems..."
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In some imstances, medical intervention with drugs to reduce LDL and other CV markers is indicated. But in the great majority of cases, kids benefit from more parental control over what they eat, and how much.

Recreational eating too often is passed as a habit by parents to their children, who often are given a high-carbohydrate munchie snack from the grocery to keep them quiet until dinnertime. No emphasis whatever on playing outside for even one hour-- just sit down in front of the TV and be quiet. Or play on your computer. Or talk on your phone. But no activity, please.

This story is the predictable media fascination with "new medical study" stories which need a great deal of context to be understood properly for what they are. Unfortunately, enough, CBS joins the rush to cover the press release with a few interviews, and then drops the matter without covering countervailing medical opinion. Drug interventions are not nearly always the answer.

(see Feedlot Nation Predictably Obese-- 2)

[alphaa10-2009]

Feedlot Nation Predictably Obese-- 2

The are multiple contributing factors to obesity, but the national epidemic can be explained to a great extent by use of high-fructose corn syrup, corn sweeteners and other "empty" carbohydrates by the food industry. Corn by-products are used by ADM to fatten cattle in feedlots, too, and with probably the same metabolic disaster as observed in humans. The feedlot cattle are only months away from disease and death by the time they are slaughtered-- their metabolisms were designed for grass and free ranging, not force-feeding.

Consumers should complain to the FDA (as has Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurologist) about its guidelines on proper nutrition. A note / email to the US congress might help.

The new FDA nutritional guidelines are better than nothing, but not nearly as scientifically informed as they should be. Predictably, FDA bent over backwards to avoid discomfiting the food industry-- even if that meant poorer health for the rest of us.

[drinuk]

The more one considers this loony recommendation the more crooked it appears. We should as a Nation be discouraging children from drug dependency, instead Big Pharma are spending more and more on lobbying for greater use. The FDA and the politicians who are taking money from Big Pharma to push these policies are not only Raving Mad but downright immoral and crooked. They are the Real Terrorists seriously affecting the lives of ordinary Americans.

[flreason]

COLONIEny:

Feminism isn''t responsible for the poor eating habits of American children. Employers who don''t pay a living wage that may require both parents working to make ends meet are a part of the problem. Men involved in multiple marriages who don''t want to support their children are part of the problem. Lack of taxpayer support for schools, and the cost-cutting on meals and PE that have resulted, are part of the problem. Our consumer economy, where Americans are encouraged to spend as a "patriotic" duty (as in the recent tax rebates), and luxuries are billed as necessities, are also part of the problem.

So before you point your misogynistic finger at feminists, you might do well to remember those other folded fingers pointing back at you.

[aerodog]

Ok, this is getting f-----g ridiculous. If parents would feed the kids healthy food, they wouldn''t be turning into porkers. Fruits & vegetables is the way to go Mom and Dad - not fast food junk. What a lazy world we live in.

[sistatee-2009]

Here, Billy, this shot will get your gut and -ss off your shoes.

[Syndicate]

Exercise should have been recommended before any drugs. Besides when these kids need new hearts we will grow them in a lab. What a waste of money and credibility.

[colonieny]

meDIA mOMMA: You are the exception to the rule. Kudos.
The fact remains, that the break up of the traditioal family has had many negative effects on kids, one of which is the traditional sit down meal with mom and dad, well prepared and nutrisious.

[ejcspau]

how about parents monitoring what their kids eat. Oh wait, that would mean they would have to pay attention to their kids. What am I thinking. That would be sort of like work! It''s easier to blame your kid being overweight on someone other than yourself. If kids are fat, blame the parents. Don''t let your kid sit in front of a tv and eat *** all afternoon after getting home from school where they sat at a desk all day. Do something with your kids!

[li3ecca]

I think all kids should take cholesterol drugs, even if theyre whavberter

[godofredo29]

If it''s statins we''re talking about here, there are going to be loads of boys running into problems with rhabdomyolisis (that so-called "rare but serious side effect"). What then? Are we going to ask them to curb their physical activity so this doesn''t happen? Maybe put them on ritalin?

[drinuk]

The AAP is yet another corrupt mouthpiece for Big Pharma. Before they recommend any more junk for our children we should take stock of the damage already done. Let us have honest independent research into MMR and Autism. Let us cease immediately the very serious harm being caused to young females Forced to take Gardasil and finally ask ourselves WHY children under five are forced to have as many as 40 (Forty) vaccinations.

Finally, BAN Aspartame, Corn Syrup and Genetically Modified Foods.

AND Mothers ! start cooking natural wholesome foods and quit the Junk.