Cardiologist Called New Cholesterol Guidelines A Disgrace And Benefit For Big Pharma | The Daily Sheeple

Cardiologist Called New Cholesterol Guidelines A Disgrace And Benefit For Big Pharma | The Daily Sheeple:
“We have a saying in medicine. If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” – Cardiologist Dr. Barbara Roberts on cholesterol guidelines.

It seems like every time the mainstream media reports some new changes to health guidelines, another recruit of people is suddenly considered in the unhealthy class.

Nowhere is this pattern seen more prominently than in the heart health industry. 
After all, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States, having killed 597,000 Americans in 2011.

A Few Notable Examples of Changing Health Guidelines:

In 1998, around 29 million Americans became overweight overnight without gaining a single pound, thanks to new body mass index (BMI) standards by the NIH. Many were suddenly considered obese, including most athletes. ...

...So, as you can see, the AHA is mainly responsible for some of these major changes. 
We’d like to circle back to the 2013 change – the one that determined many Americans were now at risk with their cholesterol and should be placed on statins.

Cardiologist Dr. Barbara Roberts had plenty to say about this change and even authored a book called The Truth about Statins: Risks and Alternatives to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs. She is director of the Women’s Cardiac Center at The Miriam Hospital and associate clinical professor of Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Convergence R.I. reported that the doctor was angry and had to speak out about this change:

She does not mince her words when it comes to the new cholesterol guidelines recently published by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology – which have suggested that millions of healthy Americans should start taking statins.

“The new guidelines are based on shoddy science and misinterpretation of the data,” she told ConvergenceRI in a recent interview. “This is a gift to Big Pharma. The American Heart Association has become little more than a propaganda arm of Big Pharma and Big Food. It’s a disgrace.”...

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