Comments on: Cholesterol Drugs For Kids Recommended

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

[coppertales]

Yep, perscribe meds that will blow out kidneys and damage heart muscle. 8 year old kids would not know if they are having any side effects or not. Remember, doctors will LIE TO YOU to get you to take statin meds. Those dangerous side effects are not all that rare..

[credibility2]

Another example of the nanny state we''re becoming. Whatever happened to parents who were really being parental? News flash for parents: read the labels and stop giving artery clogging food to your kids. Don''t appease your kids or reward them with junk food. Get active with them and pressure your kid''s school to reinstate physical education and recess. Get proactive instead of sitting back and letting others do the thinking for you.

[colonieny]

I Agree with TAlkingham:
CORN SYRUP is in everything we eat. EVEN the LOX has corn syrup put into it.

In addition, some young teens develop polycystic ovary syndrome. These kids are obese because of elevated insulin and testosterone levels. IT is difficult to overcome, but it can be, with exercise, and a very restricted but healthy diet. The more muscle mass, the better the insulin works.

[pollroller1]

I can''t believe it. We are all in agreement. LOL I also think that this is just more hype for the drug companies to increase their profits. Nothing beats a healthy diet and exercise.

[ponco seno]

"Cholesterol Drugs For Kids Recommended"




ARE WE KIDDING?

[andor3]

an influential doctors group is recommending..."

and what are their ties to the pharmaceutical industry? those folks are behind every recommendation that more and more people should be taking something they sell daily.

This is insane advice. Cholesterol is an essential chemical in humans, especially children--it is a building block of the brain and neural tissue and also many hormones ans essential chemicals. That is why the body hangs onto cholesterol--because it is a valuable and vital chemical.

Too much is more likely a sign of a diet too rich in animal fats, not a need for a pill daily. And those statin drugs are hardly safe and benign as they are advertised.

[talkingham]

The advice is a complete crock of sht. Why not advise these parents to stop filling themselves and their children with corn syrup loaded foods, sodas to the tune of 12-20 spoons of corn syrup per serving, diet sodas with tons of deadly acids and the totally bogus death inducing poly-unsat fats (completely unnatural rancid oils the edible oils industry has loaded the US diet with for 3 decades now).

And all these bestards can do is sell your kids drugs and tell you to drink low fat milk. A complete crock.

People use some common sense. The heart disease epidemic and obesity epidemic is directly related to the over processed, rancid oil, corn syrup diet you eat, not whole milk. The American drug and nutrition industry is totally corrupt. Eat some real food, not this slop that comes in cans and boxes listing 30 or 40 ingredients in a bag of potato chips or cookies and is anything but food.

Of course these experts are only interested in selling drugs instead of pointing out what a load of slop the American diet is, and I''m not talking about whole milk, it''s one of the good things you can get but it would be a lot better if it weren''t heat processed to death.

[naucoming4u]

Here''s a switch...

...kids having to take just as many meds as their grandparents!

But then again, that would be a Pharmaceutical company''s wet dream come true!

[lonestartnow]

I''ve posted this before, and I''m sure I''ll post it again, but there''s no substitute for better nutritional choices and increased physical activity. Come on parents. These are your children. Limit TV and computer time. Take away the junk and fast food and cook a nutritions meal. A lifetime of statin drugs is not the answer. Two-thirds of our population is overweight or obese and it''s costing us all, from added fuel consumption to medical bills, to missed time at work. The crazy thing is, the answer to this problem at least, is one that''s in our own control.

When we work with employee groups and organizations, offering the LoneStart Wellness Initiative in the workplace, we encourage participants to take the material home and share it with their families. It''s where it all has to start if we''re ever going to end it this epidemic. And yes, it is an epidemic.

[zertrat]

Are the drugs safe or not? Who knows.

Beef? That we know.
Unsafe to begin with. Then we "refine" it by increasing saturated fat content (ground beef). Bad for environment. Leading killer of rainforests in Brazil. Bad economically, except for beef moguls. Just say no to beef. Look at the faces of our fat little children chugging down those McBurgers. How about a cyanide soda to go with it? But beef is protected against all logic by the American value system. Apple pie? Not so much.

[displeased]

Hey kids, diet and exercise is too much work. Be like your parents and take this magical candy instead. And don''t worry, if you have any side effects, we''ll simply sell you more varieties!

[estabwary]

Statins decrease CQ10 levels according some research. These are used as a crutch instead of cooking & eating healthy foods. Stop choosing convenience over health.

[watcher269-2009]

That''s right - help the drug companies to make bigger profits.

Why not just take all the vending machines out of schools and make the kids EAT RIGHT!

Start making canned food manufacturers stop adding chemicals that no one can pronounce - and take out all the MSG and sodium and sugars from all the products too.

That will take care of all the problems

[sfolos]

This is crazy. Statins drug are not safe for anybody and now the good doctors want to give it to childern? Just as the sales to adults are falling like a rock.

If they are concerned about obesity then have the parents shut off the tv, video games, and computer and have the child run around the block three times a day.

I would have the good doctors who are recomending these poisons diclose what momey and gifts they are taking from the drug companies.