MacStatins, Downside of Calcium Supplements, and Cold Weather Increases Risk of Heart Attack
British scientists endorse MacStatins. Should fast food restaurants offer a cholesterol-lowering pill with their food?
Dark chocolate reduces blood pressure. But is it better than pills?
For every 1,000 patients on calcium supplements, an additional 14 heart attacks and 10 strokes would occur. But 26 fractures would be prevented.
One more good thing about global warming. Cold weather increases heart attacks.
The takeaway of these four articles is that to lower my heart attack risk I need to: Pop a Lovastatin tab each time I eat restaurant food; eat more dark chocolate; forgo calcium supplements and stay in Texas where the temperature has been in the triple-digits for 25 of the last 26 days.
I’d be comfortable with a little more heart attack risk if it were not so hot here right now. On the other hand, the heat might melt my dark chocolate into a delicious and nutritious snack.
As far as the statins go, I think I’ll pass. I’m sure at some point in the future, popping a statin before a big meal will be as routine as it is for some people to take lactaid before eating ice cream.
Compare the Avastin decision in the post above with the market based approach we take to calcium pills. Isn’t free choice in a free market better?
At first I thought MacStatins was a joke. Then I realized these people are serious!
I like your dig at the global warming alarmists.
McDonald’s clerks as doctors? Or, are we thinking of them more like nurses? Or, even pharmacists?
Interesting.