Red-yeast cholesterol fighters can be worthless
A little more than a decade ago, a federal court ruled that over-the-counter red-yeast rice products were not drugs — despite the fact that these products contained naturally occurring chemicals that were functionally indistinguishable from lovastatin, a cholesterol-lowering prescription drug. And so a major dietary supplement industry was born. By 2008, Americans were spending $20 million a year on red-yeast rice products, many on their doctor’s recommendation (and perhaps even via their doctor’s offices).
But a new study warns that not all red-yeast rice products contain pharmacologically active concentrations of the fungal products. As such, its authors caution: “Buyer Beware!”
Red-yeast cholesterol fighters can be worthless
Watch Your Weight
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Silent Strokes
Silent Strokes – SCI’s or Silent Cerebral Infarctions occurs without many people even knowing about it. These elevate risks for further strokes and memory loss according to Boston University School of Medicine researchers and published in Stroke,
Cholesterol Screening is Urged for Young
Cholesterol Screening is Urged for Young – Good health’s got to start somewhere and so does bad health. Screening the young for such things as high cholesterol may not spring to mind, but new guidelines by the American Academy of Pediatrics has made that recommendation.
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Cholesterol Medication Yields Dramatic Benefits
Use of AstraZeneca’s Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) reduced the number of deaths, myocardial infarctions (MIs), and strokes as well as the need for bypass or angioplasty procedures by 45% in apparently healthy persons.
http://www.consultantlive.com/cholesterol/article/1145628/1404026
