I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read in the New York Times that the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines to “aggressively screen and medicate for high cholesterol in children” and that they plan on administering cholesterol-lowering drugs – called statins – to kids as young as age 8! Age 8!
WHAT’S NEXT – PUTTING YOUR NEWBORN ON ANTI-DEPRESSANTS BECAUSE IT DOESN’T SMILE ENOUGH??
But before we go into that, let me remind you of the simple facts about cholesterol…
It’s spoof on a 1950’s drug propaganda. I did this 3 min film for a film festival called Stockstock at stockstock.org and it was where they give you 40 min. of random old footage from archive.org … (more…)
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