Archive for February 16th, 2008
Posted on February 16, 2008. Filed under: Diet and Nutrition, Diseases, Drugs, Wellness, health, medicine | Tags: cholesterol, diet, Drugs, Fitness, health, Life, medicines, news, statins, Wellness |
Do Statins Make You Stupid?
Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have had a rough time of it lately.
There was the headline-making trial of the statin-combination drug Vytorin, which rattled conventional wisdom about the value of lowering cholesterol. Business Week weighed in with a report that asked: “Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?” And my Well column in Science [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2008. Filed under: Diet and Nutrition, Diseases, Longevitiy, Obese, health, medicine | Tags: cholesterol, diabetes, diet, family, Life, metabolic, news, Obese, soda |
Metabolic Syndrome Is Tied to Diet Soda
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome — the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels, and elevated blood pressure.The scientists gathered dietary information on more than 9,500 men and [...]
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