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NEW YORK – Treatment with a cholesterol-lowering statin drug may very occasionally cause double vision, drooping eyelids or weakness of the muscles that control eye movement, investigators report. Read Here

Yet another good reason to minimize your cholesterol naturally, and opt for statins as a last resort.  These are potent medications with many dangerous, if not fatal, side effects.  Just about every patient I see with musculoskeletal pain, can trace the onset of their discomfort when they started their new cholesterol medication(s).  If this is the case with you, please consult me for options to lowering your cholesterol naturally and safely. -  Dr. Rob

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A smoking ban caused heart attacks to drop by more than 40 percent in one U.S. city and the decrease lasted three years, federal health experts reported Wednesday.

Pueblo, Colorado, passed a municipal law making workplaces and public places smoke-free in 2003 and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials tracked hospitalizations for heart attacks afterward.

They found there were 399 hospital admissions for heart attacks in Pueblo in the 18 months before the ban and 237 heart attack hospitalizations in the next year and a half — a decline of 41 percent.

The effect lasted three years, the team reported in the CDC’s weekly report on death and disease.

“We know that exposure to second-hand smoke has immediate harmful effects on people’s cardiovascular systems, and that prolonged exposure to it can cause heart disease in nonsmoking adults,” said Janet Collins, director of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

“This study adds to existing evidence that smoke-free policies can dramatically reduce illness and death from heart disease.”

Long-term exposure to secondhand smoke can raise heart disease rates in adult nonsmokers by 25 percent to 30 percent, the CDC says.

Secondhand smoke kills an estimated 46,000 Americans every year from heart disease alone. Smoking also causes a variety of cancers, as well as stroke and emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

CHICAGO – At least 2 million older Americans are taking a combination of drugs or supplements that can be a risky mix — from blood thinners and cholesterol pills to aspirin and ginkgo capsules — a new study warns.

The article says “Virtually every medicine can have side effects, and with so many being used by so many older adults, the potential for harm is high.”

They then go on to say combining Statin drugs for cholesterol (like Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor) and aspirin is one of those risky interactions people need to avoid. How many people do YOU know were told by their MD’s to do just that! It’s insane. Better health through better chemistry doesn’t work, and once again the medical field has failed to give people what they truly want…

It’s better to put time, faith and energy in enhancing your own God given ability to heal, than to blindly follow the irrational and DANGEROUS methods of medicine. – Dr. Rob

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