Why New Cholesterol Drug Guidelines Put Half The World At RiskRecently, new guidelines for cholesterol levels and management were issued that have pharmaceutical giants cheering, but health care providers and advocates crying foul.

The new guidelines, released in November of 2013, drastically reduce the numbers for cholesterol levels of what is considered healthy. The result is seen as placing literally half the world’s population at risk of serious drug-related side effects if the recommendations are acted upon.

The new recommended guidelines for cholesterol levels that were released in November of 2013 have many people deeply concerned.

The summary is that the American Heart Association and the College of Cardiology, at the request of the Federal Government, looked at the current state of heart health to recommend “realistic” guidelines for mitigating heart attack and stroke as a result of unhealthy cholesterol levels.

The end result was to not only double the number of people who were recommended to take statin drugs, but to include literally every single male over the age of 60 in the guidelines of people who should be taking them.

Several major university and hospital researchers, however, are crying foul over what they see as an attempt to channelize half the population into pharmaceuticals, knowing that they cause extreme and dangerous side effects.

Many of these institutions have launched their own analyses of the recommendations, since there is a general consensus that the “data” that led to the new recommendations is flawed and based very little at all on any scientific evidence.

In fact, there is, and continues to be, mounting evidence to suggest that not only are statins not remotely as effective at preventing heart attack as the drug makers claim, but they are also implicated in the development of fatal diseases including cancer.

Some researchers say the risk is worth it, although their voices are becoming more and more drowned out by other researchers who offer real data and studies to directly dispute the recommendations’ new guidelines.

The one thing almost everyone agrees upon is that dangerous cholesterol levels can and do kill and injure people every day. But crushing the cholesterol problem doesn’t have to mean side effects and a drug regimen. It can be easy, natural, and most importantly, safe. Find out how …