September 2012 For many years Unilever has marketed its margarine Becel pro-activ (Flora pro-activ) and certain yoghurt products with the argument that they lower cholesterol. The cholesterol-lowering effect is due to the addition of plant sterols extracted from soya beans …
August 2012 Is egg yolk dangerous to health? On August 1 the medical journal Atherosclerosis published a paper by three Canadian researchers claiming that eating egg yolks was just as dangerous to health as cigarette smoking. Unfortunately, many newspapers have reported …
July 2012 Statin treatment and bad muscles In my books I have given many examples of adverse effects after statin treatment that have been downplayed or ignored by the drug industry. One example is muscle pain and weakness which according …
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May 2012 A few months ago two well-known US scientists Rodney Hayward and Harlan Krumholz published an open letter entitled Three reasons to abandon low-density lipoprotein targets in the medical journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcome. In this paper they …
April 2012 “New” statin side effects Those of you, who have read our member Duane Graveline´s book ”Thief of Memory” know that bad memory is one of the many serious side effects from statin treatment. According to Dr Graveline thousands …
March 2012 Is read meat a deadly poison? Recently a new report has been published from the famous Channing Laboratory at Harvard. Here, a number of researchers headed by Walter Willett have studied the dietary habits for many years in …
February 2012 Diabetics – don´t eat statins! It is well established that patients with diabetes run a greater risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. In Sweden and in most other countries cholesterol-lowering treatment is therefore prescribed routinely to all diabetics, whether …
January 2012 A misleading statin report In my November newsletter I told you about the misleading SATURN trial. Together with two of our members, Paul Rosch, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at New York Medical College and President of The …
December 2011 Bad statin news aren´t welcome In many western countries more and more get cancer although at the same time more and more people stop smoking, one of the most cancer-provoking factors. We (the members of THINCS) think that …
November 2011 How to cheat with complicated calculations The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the results of the SATURN trial. It was designed to study the effect of atorvastatin (Lipitor) vs. rosuvastatin (Crestor) on the volume of atheroma …