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Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN num: 9781844543601
ISBN number: 1844543609
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Page Count: 384
Printing Date: January 01, 2007
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Another author jumping on the cholesterol band wagon. You know things are getting a bit much when you have two books with the same name.
Yes hardly eating any fat is bad for you. Yes lets write a book about it and earn a few bob. Yes lets include a rendition of terrible humour.
Aaaargh !! Please stop or do some peer reviewed research rather than preaching "pub chat" to the masses
Is it me or does every alternative half baked book on health receive rave reviews ? Is it all a corporation conspiracy
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As an internist/epidemiologist I was thrilled by this well written book (as good as Gary Taube's, and much more fun to read). I hope to be around when the pillars collapse around the fifty year old specious theory of cholesterol's role in CVD.However,like the erroneous theories of gastric ulcer causation, Big Pharma and the medical establishment are unlikely to give up on this money-making enterprise soon. The theory is now orthodoxy, and like any threat to a religion, people like Kendrick will be considered heretics for years to come. Think of Helicobacter pylori.
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Dr. Kendrick, with razor sharp British wit, provides an understandable, but fact and research supported explanation of the truly unforgivable self-interested leadership provided by our National health organizations, and the Pharmaceutical industry, as they promote a profit driven statin drug scam on our world populations. It becomes clear how our willingness to take the word of doctors as fact and in our best interest, does not serve us well.
Kendrick, using the gentleness of wit, delivers a healthy dose of reality on the fallibility of doctors. Hey, they are human! They are busy and fall victim of taking the word of other "experts" that they should be able to count on. It is apparent that those sources are influenced by forces not acting in our best interest!! Naively, they probably do think there is little harm in statins. Hey, remember Thalidomide?
You owe it to yourself to get the facts before exposing yourself to expensive, and, tragically, very unnecessary and potentially very very harmful medication sold to fix a "cholesterol problem" that in no way is the problem, based on the most elementary scientific method and unbiased interpretation of their own research results.
Dr. Kendrick has done us all a huge favor taking the risk, and putting in the effort to expose this fraud. This sham is on a scale that could truly land corporations in huge lawsuits, as with tobacco. But, as you will see, they are most cleaver and innocent in their methods......
Best of all, you will sleep better getting some real answers to this baffling barrage of media and MD rhetoric. Like, "what is cholesterol anyway?"
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So it turns out that Big pharma, and your doctor are conspiring to worsen your health so that they can make money.
Can I ask How???
If big pharma is fabricating research about cholesterol to convince doctors to prescribe statins to improve your health...how are they in conspiracy??
Do you really think that all the drugs are bad and you are better off with natural remedies...then let me ask you this ....do you think if any of these natural remedies was as wonderful as it is claimed to be, do you really think that a drug company would not snatch it and sell it to you as a pharma grade expensive product and make a fortune out of it.
Let me enlighten you:
if you read the book for entertainment ..I can see that
but if you read it for info and even worse if you believed it...then you are saying that all these legitimate people and organization such as the American heart association, American college of physicians are conspiring against you....as you would have concluded here from reading this book by somebody who claims he knows (why would you believe that he is trying to help you)
It is hard to come up with great medical discoveries but it is very easy to fabricate some cure it all sell on the internet miracle cure and get rich doing it
So who do you really think is after your money????conspiring against you????
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"Nobody believes the official spokesman . . . but everybody trusts an unidentified source" R. Nessen
Choose whether to take statins based on the evidence below rather than be swayed by the bias in this book (which I would say is worse than the drug industry) .
Heres a summary of the most important research data
CHOLESTEROL TREATMENT TRIALISTS COLLABORATION META-ANALYSIS OF ALL THE DATA. LANCET 2005:366:1267
Secondary prevention (meaning if you've already got some form of cardiovascular disease):Number needed to treat (NNT):21 over 5 years to prevent one heart attack or stroke.ie. This means to prevent one person from having a stroke or heart attack 21 people would have to be on statins for 5 years
Primary Prevention (if no established cardiovascular disease), in high risk patients: NNT of 40 over 5 years to prevent one heart attack or stroke.
FURTHER METANALYSIS OF THE PRIMARY PREVENTION TRIALS LANCET 2007:369:168.
They found for patients with no pre-existing cardiovascular disease
1.No evidence of reduction in total mortality
2.Overall cardiovascular events reduced with statins (NNT OF 67 over 5 years)
3.Analysis suggests benefit is only seen in high risk men aged 30-69 (NNT 50)
4.Women did not seem to benefit, nor anyone over the age of 69
This is probably the most important data you will need when deciding to take statins. If you get any side effects ask yourself whether its worth the above benefits.
For those of you that believe its all a big doctor/pharmaceutical conspiracy you should bear in mind that Kendrick is more than a GP, he also works for a pharmaceutical company. If I was really paranoid I'd be thinking that this big anti-cholesterol push is driven by the drug companies because simvastatin is off patent and theres no money in statins any more. Just so they can lay the framework for the subsequent big lipid drug!! It happens every time a drug goes off patent (and is therefore much cheaper), theres always a big slagging just so they can sell you a new and improved version at 20 times the cost
You've also got to ask yourself why Kendrick the self proclaimed expert hasn't published any research on the subject describing his enlightening theories. Surely if its important enough and his theories have validity they would be published in a peer reviewed journal? No? I wonder why not?
Kendrick writes for the blue flags publication on many topics supposedly debunking modern medicine and thwarting main stream opinion. This means he has a specific interest in flouting his peers and inevitably this is expressed as bias in his book
Who would you rather believe? Thousands of Cardiologists , Professors of medicine etc. who are paid to research the topic or a GP who works for a pharmaceutical company ? Hmm...
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