{"id":2190,"date":"2011-01-05T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/your-kids-cholesterol-the-best-medicine-may-be-to-just-leave-them-alone.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:15:51","slug":"your-kids-cholesterol-the-best-medicine-may-be-to-just-leave-them-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Your kids&#8217; cholesterol. The best medicine may be to just leave them alone."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/TSShR5aEMWI\/AAAAAAAAC2k\/4UBe1Zti_t8\/s1600\/KidsRaiseHand.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-opt-id=1636642178  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/TSShR5aEMWI\/AAAAAAAAC2k\/4UBe1Zti_t8\/s320\/KidsRaiseHand.jpg?resize=217%2C320\" width=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The old saying is, &#8220;<i>If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail<\/i>&#8220;. In other words &#8230; if you have a product, you want to apply that product to everything.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><i><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Here are two examples:<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bariatric surgeons want to apply gastric bypass and banding to children.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Companies that make Lipitor, etc., want to give those meds to your children.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>New data on cholesterol in kids<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">These new findings, published in the <i>Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine<\/i>, are based on 539 school children, aged seven to 15, who had blood drawn in 1985 and again 20 years later. Both cholesterol and triglycerides were measured.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Most of the kids with scary-high cholesterol turned out NOT to have high cholesterol as adults. Most of the adults with very high cholesterol NEVER had that condition as kids.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i><b>In other words, the cholesterol you have as a kid has nothing to do with the cholesterol you develop as an adult!<\/b><\/i>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u>It&#8217;s even worse:<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Of the kids with bad cholesterol numbers who grew up and <i><b>never improved their lifestyle factors<\/b><\/i> (they kept eating nasty food and not being active), a full 84% of them no longer had those same bad numbers (low HDL).<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">So the bottom line is that our kids are not nails for someone else&#8217;s pharmaceutical hammer, and they certainly don&#8217;t need to correct a &#8220;problem&#8221; with their cholesterol, when it will more than likely correct itself over time.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE7035WW20110104\">Healthy choices tied to kids&#8217; cholesterol changes | Reuters<\/a><br \/>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willclower.com\/\"> Click here to visit Will Clower&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old saying is, &#8220;If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#8220;. 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