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Healthy Heart Foods When I worked at the great Chicago restaurant Topolobampo, one of the other volunteers in the kitchen loaded up on Peptobismol and Lipitor (a statin now off patent) before our annual trip to a great culinary region in Mexico. “One for the gut and one for [...]
Do Statins Raise Diabetes Risk? Probably, in higher doses. A study of 18000 people without heart disease, called JUPITER, shows that Crestor (rosuvastatin) 20 mg showed that for every 1000 patients on high dose (40mg and up) statins, there are 6 more cases of new diabetes over 2 years. [...]
With the fear of fat that still dominates Americans’ nutritional interest came the widespread use of nonstick cookware, including panini makers, countertop grills and saute pans. But a recent Archives of Pediatrics cholesterol report analyzing over 12000 children finds that those with highest [...]
The March 19 2010FDA Warning about Zocor, a statin medication causing myopathy, and rare rhabdomyolysis, makes me think about other ways people who love food can lower their cholesterol too. The simple story is this: eating food with cholesterol in it doesn’t raise your cholesterol level, [...]