The body is a complicated machine. Many who concentrate on one are two metrics without trying to figure out exactly how they relate to other functions of the body can create false medicine.
Case in point is the use of drugs that take advantage of the known observation that those with high HDL cholesterol suffer from less cardiac problems than those with lower HDL cholesterol. Doctors have been prescribing these drugs for some time now to raise ones HDL cholesterol.
Now comes the study that simply using drugs to modify these values do not remove the risk of a heart attack. This news should lead to Americans changing their health paradigm. It is time to stop looking for drugs to control our cholesterol and weight and start finding programs that will do it naturally.
