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Effects of a Dietary Portfolio of Cholesterol – (08-04-03)

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Effects of a Dietary Portfolio of Cholesterol-Lowering Foods, vs Lovastatin on Serum Lipids and CRP

The pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to find a drug that lowers CRP levels. Well–look no further–Mother Nature has provided us with the tools already.

In this study we find that a mixed dietary approach at lowering cholesterol and CRP was as effective as lovastatin. I’m not being cynical here–I truly do wonder why a study like this published in JAMA does not get any press. Can the pharmaceutical influence be so powerful as to suppress this kind of info from the general public???

JAMA — Abstracts: Jenkins et al. 290 (4): 502

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BENEFITS ARE EQUAL WITH DIET AND DRUGS – (03-06-05)

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Direct comparison of dietary portfolio of cholesterol-lowering foods with a statin

Hmmm…over a quarter of the patients in this study achieved BETTER lowering with the diet.  All patients benefited at least as well with the diet as with the drug.  So, the benefits are equal–why not just take the drug?  Simply because the dietary intervention has also lowered the risk for any number of other chronic diseases.

The statin drug has just effected cholesterol (and even this is questionable for lowering risk of cardiac deaths) and may actually INCREASE your risk of other diseases by lowering CoQ10 production.

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