Culinary Rx: An Apple a Day vs a Statin Drug

Tens of millions of people worldwide are put on statins for the purpose of lowering cholesterol levels. The assumption being that by lowering cholesterol levels, the risk of a heart attack will also be reduced. The large majority of these individuals have never had a heart attack and only have high cholesterol levels. As is well known, any drug, even one that has been proven to be effective, can have serious side effects.

The Proverbial Apple a Day

The British Medical Journal published an interesting article in its December 2013 edition comparing the benefits of a statin drug against the benefits of …read more