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Statins – Wonder drug or Villains?

Posted on September 25, 2009 by admin

My wife sent me this article adapted from the daily Express. I took Simvastin, a powerful Stain drug, for 15 years and today 15 years on – I’m rarely free from muscular pain and joint problems. This so called benign … Continue reading →

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STATIN DRUGS – KNOW THE DANGERS

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Squidoo Lenses by paulbarton

If you use any drug with the word statin in it then you need to read this material and make up your own mind. The question should be “are they effective in reducing heart disease”?
In very simple terms the pharmaceutical companies produced statin type drugs to respond to the belief that you can reduce the incidence of heart attacks by reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood.
The basis for the belief and use of statins comes from the call to adopt low fat/low cholesterol diets of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe, just maybe, its not a sound decision. Continue reading →

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dangers of statin drugs

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Squidoo Lenses by paulbarton

If you use any drug with the word statin in it then you need to read this material and make up your own mind. The question should be “are they effective in reducing heart disease”?
In very simple terms the pharmaceutical companies produced statin type drugs to respond to the belief that you can reduce the incidence of heart attacks by reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood.
The basis for the belief and use of statins comes from the call to adopt low fat/low cholesterol diets of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe, just maybe, its not a sound decision. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1980s, 1990s, Belief That, cholesterol, Dangers Of Statin Drugs, Heart Attacks, heart disease, Low Cholesterol Diets, Low Fat Low Cholesterol, Low Fat Low Cholesterol Diets, Pharmaceutical Companies, pharmaceutical drugs, Reducing Cholesterol, Sound Decision, Statins | Comments Off