Re: keeping cholesterol low?

From: GMCarter (fiar_at_verizon.net)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:17:49 GMT

On 11 Jan 2005 18:52:37 GMT, listener <listener@nospam.net> wrote:

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>I see a disturbing pattern amongst the statin haters: they cannot (or are
>unable) to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Ah--why don't you look at the "alternatives" for cholesterol
management? Some have toxicities (e.g., niacin). Some have very few
(policosanols), certainly compared to statins.

Such an evaluation would be more to the point than just jerking the
polemical chain.

                George M. Carter