>>I guess if Tamar's or Dorris' husbands get a blood test results showing high level of cholesterol (which I do not wish them at all), they could suggest to the husbands NOT TO WORRY and not to take antistatins since "human body are not decreed by parliament, learned judges or pharmaceutical companies, they are set by God and altered by things we do to ourselves, while practitioners peer at complex issues through a glass darkly."
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>It's not a binary choice.. take meds or do nothing.
>I had a high cholesterol reading and my BP was a little high, so I went on the South Beach diet and did more walking (on the golf course.)
>The readings are now normal without any meds.
>I have a lot of faith in my internist. He threatened me with having to take the pills if I didn't clean my act up.
>I did and I don't.
What if, after your went on the diet and increased the level of exercise, your cholesterol would still be high, you would you do then?
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