ZOCOR RAISES INSULIN LEVELS

From www.Dr. Mercola.comDespite the well-documented benefits of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, a new study from Finland shows that diet can still make a difference in patients taking these drugs when it comes to keeping cholesterol under control.In a study...

PREVENTING PARKINSON’S WITH CO-ENZYME Q10

October 21, 2002In recent years, a number of high profile celebrities have put a very human face on the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease. Most notably, we’ve seen how actors Michael J. Fox and Katherine Hepburn, Pope John Paul II, and former...

MORE ON THE FOLLY OF CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING DRUGS

Although it became clear that a change in diet had little effect on CHD, that did not end the scientists’ efforts to demonstrate that CHD could be prevented. If diet couldn’t do it, then intervention with drugs would provide the evidence. And since drugs...

THE DANGERS OF LOW CHOLESTEROL

Low blood cholesterol and cancerSo far advertisers and news media have concentrated on the supposed danger from high levels of blood cholesterol. The dangers of low blood cholesterol levels have largely been ignored.Countries with diets high in saturated fats also...

DIETARY FATS & HEART DISEASE

That diet might play a part as a cause of CHD was hypothesised by another American doctor, Ancel Keys, in 1953. Using data from seven countries in his ‘Seven Countries Study’, Keys compared the death rates from CHD and the amounts of fats eaten in those...