Comments on: Cholesterol Drugs For Kids Recommended

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

[formrusmcsgt]

Big Pharma wants to get kids on drugs and keep them for the rest of their lives.

Posted by steeepe at 07:31 PM : Jul 07, 2008

And parents who don''t have the gonads to say no will go along for the ride......

[steeepe]

Ridiculous! Better diets and more exercise will achieve the same results, and the kids will feel and think better, too. Big Pharma wants to get kids on drugs and keep them for the rest of their lives.

[nyjtt692]

Parents, please beware. If you read the article, Dr. Stephen Daniels used to work as a consultant for Merck and Abbott Laboratories. If you look at the American Academy of Pediatrics web site, these 2 companies are contributors to the AAP organization. This news item and the one from last week saying that infants should get more pain medication are looking to me like the drug companies are mining for new patrons. What does this mean? Risk to your children, higher medical costs, etc. I think we need some very detailed information about the folks at the American Academy of Pediatrics and their business relationships (past, present, and future) with the drug companies. I can''t help but think the drug companies are putting them up to this.

[oneamerican-]

Don''t let your kids eat junk, don''t let them have ANYTHING with "high fructose corn syrup" in it, and get them outside to burn off energy instead of zoning out on TV or video games.

Parents - take some responsiblity for your children''s health!

[lovegetpeace]

American US Drug Companies must be celebrating instead of promoting a lifestyle what includes exercise. I guess McDonald is nolonger a scapegoat.

[kennedy7955]

It wasn''t long ago that they put millions of kids on Ritalin, Brand Names: Concerta, Metadate CD, Metadate ER, Methylin, Methylin ER, Ritalin, Ritalin LA, Ritalin-SR. It was a stupid thing to do and it was marketed almost silently. One day there were no kids on the drug and next, entire schools. That was stupid and dangerous for the kids but very profitable for the drug companies.

Americans are fat and they are having fat kids. Cholesterol was never tested on kids in the past. In fact, it wasn''t tested for on adults until recently.

The way this is reported, there some readers who will relate cholesterol to being overweight, and taking these drugs might solve the high LDL and therefore maybe cure being fat.

So I am guessing this will be the latest craze. You got to read between the lines folks. This is how they will market this ***.

So the pharma industry wants to give millions of kids these drugs. Well I am 45 and took Lipitor for 1 week and had muscle aches that nearly crippled me for 90 days thereafter. What the heck, kids can take the abuse.

On top of that there is a body of evidence that people with high cholesterol and no other factors should not take these drugs. Cholesterol drugs will not help kids lose weight.

[talkingham]

And oh yeah, these know-it-all dietitians (what a joke) they come up with the new food pyramid that has the same proportions of fat to protein as swine fattening formulas, go figure!

A cake donut usually has two-four times more fat (and usually trans fat at that) as does a typical yeast donut. But for anyone to think that "the fast food chain" is any kind of solution to feeding their families, well they just need to go out and get some horse sense whipped into themselves. Because if you think some pimple faced ne''er do well behind the filthy hamburger or chicken fast food counter one week and then gone the next is going to feed you anything healthy then perhaps a horse whipping wouldn''t even help.

[meinnv]

Thankfully, my mother now has a "set" schedule, but the damage from that inconsistent schedule has already been done.

Now she works 3 12''s and is off 4 days in a row.

Then again, there is always the problem of the food prices. That is something the government could do--give us tax breaks to eat healthier.

BTW: I priced veggies, they''re more expensive than you think. For my mother and I to even have one serving per night it costs $2.00--on sale; normally $3 per night (we get frozen veggies only; no preservative ridden canned goods).

1 serving of veggies for 14 nights (she gets paid bi-weekly) costs around $28-$42 every two weeks. With a grocery budget (including cleaning & personal hygiene supplies) of $200; that money doesn''t go very far. So, yes sometimes we have to eat food we shouldn''t; it''s either that or go hungry; or go without a place to live.

[meinnv]

A few years ago when my mother was on 12 hour shifts, her boss didn''t know how to schedule her, so here is what she sometimes worked:

3-12''s; off one day; work 3 12''s; off 2; work 4 hours 1 day; off one; work 4 12''s. With a schedule like that, without regular days off we were lucky to get dinner. I cooked as much as I could, but there were times when the money was tight and it was either spend $20 on a good wholesome meal for one night or spend $20 on microwave dinners.

Am not proud of it, but sometimes it happens.

Also, when she was working 12 hour shifts, she had 2 hours of travel time (to and from work). With 24 hours in the day, that gave her only 2 hours before she had to head to bed to get 8 hours of rest. With her stomach condition she had to stay up 2 hours after she ate, so a TV dinner was the best we could do with hardly any time to cook.

[meinnv]

mediamomma, I completely agree with you on Wendy''s being better. But as I said, if you are strapped for cash, you have to afford what you can. And, in today''s time with parents working so many hours to provide for their kids, there is not enough time in the day to cook or you''re too tired (trust me, I gave up a few dinners and went to bed hungry only because my exhausted mother just didn''t have the energy to cook after a 12 hour day).

We as a society have to slow down and change. The government needs to crack down on our employers and stop with all these 60-80 hour work weeks. We are killing ourselves by working to death and eating what we have time for and can afford.