Your kids’ cholesterol. The best medicine may be to just leave them alone.
Posted On January 5, 2011
The old saying is, “If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail“. In other words … if you have a product, you want to apply that product to everything.
Here are two examples:
- Bariatric surgeons want to apply gastric bypass and banding to children.
- Companies that make Lipitor, etc., want to give those meds to your children.
New data on cholesterol in kids
These new findings, published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, are based on 539 school children, aged seven to 15, who had blood drawn in 1985 and again 20 years later. Both cholesterol and triglycerides were measured.
Most of the kids with scary-high cholesterol turned out NOT to have high cholesterol as adults. Most of the adults with very high cholesterol NEVER had that condition as kids. In other words, the cholesterol you have as a kid has nothing to do with the cholesterol you develop as an adult!
It’s even worse:
Of the kids with bad cholesterol numbers who grew up and never improved their lifestyle factors (they kept eating nasty food and not being active), a full 84% of them no longer had those same bad numbers (low HDL).
So the bottom line is that our kids are not nails for someone else’s pharmaceutical hammer, and they certainly don’t need to correct a “problem” with their cholesterol, when it will more than likely correct itself over time.
Healthy choices tied to kids’ cholesterol changes | Reuters
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