There were warnings on ITV's "Tonight with Trevor McDonald" about the bad side-effects experienced by some people when taking Lipitor, a statin drug.

Statins, among them Lipitor, are clearly being over-prescribed both in the USA and in Britain, and are undoubtedly harming some of the people who take them; and sometimes the harm done is both serious and permanent.

This sensible programme explored changing to a healthier lifestyle as an alternative to statins as a way of reducing high cholesterol levels; and the healthier lifestyle brought about significant improvement in all of the patients who tried it. - And unlike with taking statins, there were no adverse side-effects.

You can also lower high cholesterol levels by cutting down on salt and salty food.

You can read more about statins, and the bad experiences of people who have taken statins, by clicking on the statins tag under this blog entry.

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I watched ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald this evening - entitled Food for the Brain

The ITV website says: "Children and teachers at a previously under-performing school discover if a radical, year-long experiment overhauling their diet and fitness has yielded improvements in the classroom."

What a pleasure it was to see how improved nutrition benefited the these primary schoolchildren! - The concerted efforts of headmistress, teachers, mothers and the children themselves really did pay off...(o: - Children ate healthier school meals or took healthier packed lunches (in particular, containing fresh fruit) to school. Also their mothers made great efforts to provide them with healthier meals at home. - In particular they cooked, rather than just giving their children ready meals. - Also they sat with their children at the table to eat, instead of the children eating convenience food while sitting watching the TV.

The changes were dramatic and most impressive: - happier children, better behaved children, who were better able to give attention and to concentrate, better able to cooperate and play with their siblings, reading better, scoring higher in school tests, especially maths. - And the mothers were so happy at the improvements and so justifiedly proud of themselves for the results of the work they had put in.

Personally, I don't believe in ADHD and such medical labels for a putative disease that some of the children were supposed to suffer from, and for which no doubt some drug-happy doctors would want to prescribe ritalin. - It simply stands to reason that if you do not feed a body proper food, then both the body and the mind will perform sub-optimally.

The best 'doctor' is good food/good nutrition...(o:


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ITV's Bariatric Gastric Surgery as treatment for Obesity, Jan 8th 2007. Message for Ricky Grover.

I watched ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald last evening. It was a programme about 'Drastic Gastric Surgery', performed as a treatment for obesity, and was presented by the comedian, Ricky Grover, who is himself obese. The government has controversially recommended that severely overweight teenagers go under the knife. Ricky was considering having the surgery to help with his own weight problem. He has tried dieting and exercising but they have not reduced the obesity. The three sorts of operations were explained to us.

Ricky interviewed people who had experienced this surgery. Some were very happy with the surgery and its outcome, but very sadly, one person interviewed was a widower, whose young wife had suffered very great pain and had died as a result of the surgery.

I'm pleased to report that Ricky decided against such surgery for himself.

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