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Medicating Our Unhealthy Children...

Posted on July 24, 2008

Dr. Peter Libby, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston, calls the push to medicate children with statins an admission of colossal societal failure. Via The New York Times:But I think all that misses the crux of the issue. The very discussion of drug treatment to lower cholesterol in kids constitutes an admission of colossal societal failure. Although our genetic makeup has not changed in the last 20 years, our collective girth has skyrocketed, and the epidemic of childhood obesity is going gl...

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