Recently there was an item in the news about how children were developing high cholesterol and should be treated with statin drugs. This is basically a push from the drug companies to sell more drugs. Drugs that have not been tested in children and are not recommended for children.
Look at the underlying problem here. It is not the high cholesterol. The problem is the increasing obesity in this country. Children are not the only ones, but the drug manufacturers already have the drugs for adults. Now they need a new place to market, so they have chosen the children.
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