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...hope Bill Clinton doesn't get any ideas from Philippine President Fidel Ramos, who will auction as a "relic" the lump of cholesterol that doctors recently removed from his right carotid. Proceeds will go to Smokey Mountain--the big garbage dump that is now the site of low-cost housing. No word on whether Sotheby's is interested...
Researchers have known since at least the 1990s that trans fats are doubly bad for the heart. They boost bad-cholesterol (LDL) levels and depress good-cholesterol (HDL) levels in the blood. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that processed foods and oils account for 80% of the national intake of trans fats. The FDA suggests you cut down as much as possible on the fats. One study concluded that eliminating hydrogenated oils could prevent up to 100,000 premature coronary deaths a year...
...cholesterol-lowering treatment that thousands of Americans take daily may also make their bones stronger, according to a new study that confirms earlier findings about the side benefits of statins...
...study “Statin Use and Fracture Risk,” which appeared in the Archive of Internal Medicine on Sept. 26, concluded that those who take statin cholesterol pills are 32 percent more likely not to endure a bone fracture than those on lipid-lowering therapy, a common alternative to statin use. They are also 36 percent more likely not to endure a break than those receiving no cholesterol therapy...
...this study’s large subject pool allowed Scranton to discard many subjects who might have confounded the study’s results, including patients who had previously received prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medication and those who had fractured a bone within their first month in the health care system...