Most doctors are still trying to put us all on statins. Most life insurance companies still won’t sell you insurance if you’re really fit, have great bp and ‘high cholesterol’. Talking with a person visiting from Scotland yesterday, it is painfully obvious that Americans are penalized in this for not buying into the corporate food, medicine and entertainment industry. Makes you want to be like the Amish.

Here's one for you. My doctors wanted to put me on a statin as I had total cholesterol of 227. I told them I could reduce the cholesterol by diet, alone. (Luckily, I like salmon and avocadoes) Got the total cholesterol down to 161. They STILL wanted me to take a statin. So I did. Awful muscle aches and cramps. Threw that garbage out. So riddle me this - if cholesterol is supposed to be under 200 and I got mine to 161 why a statin? The only thing I could assume is that most of the medical profession has become clinically retarded.

I’m sorry. That’s ridiculous.

What's ridiculous? My doctors' nostrums or my telling of it?