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Now that you've decided to take the first step in changing your lifestyle, we thought you would be interested in the following:
A Risk in Cholesterol Drugs Is Detected, but Is It Real?
Click on the link above to read how Dr. Ralph Edwards, director of the World Health Organization's drug-monitoring center, has amassed about four million reports of medical problems experienced by people taking prescription drugs. His job is to sift through these so-called adverse events, looking for "signals" of potential side effects.
The number of Lou Gehrig's cases associated with statins struck Dr. Edwards as high. He would have expected a number in the single digits, instead of 172 people in his database who developed Lou Gehrig's disease or something similar while taking prescription medicines, 40 had been on statins. You can see the abstract of the study here.
The latest research has shown that a cholesterol reducing diet which includes soy protein, cereals, nuts and plant sterols was nearly as effective as statin drugs (such as Lipitor and Zocor) in reducing cholesterol. CLUE contains all of these proven cholesterol lowering food ingredients in a delicious "Heart Smart" bar.
You can read about this July, 2003 study here:
The Journal of The American Medical Association.
For information on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Approved Health Claims:
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Edms/flg-6c.html
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/300_soy.html#health
The American Heart Association Science Advisory Statement on the benefits of Soy Protein in reducing Cardiovascular Disease:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/102/20/2555
For general information on soy:
http://www.talksoy.com/SoyHealthClaim/QandA.htm
More resources for lowering cholesterol:
Side effects of statins
National Cholesterol Education Program