Should Kids Have Cholesterol Tests?
And by extension, should children take cholesterol medicines to deal with any problems found by such tests? Isn’t the thought revolting to you? In what generation known to mankind have we put children on as much medicine as they are on today. Today’s children cannot sit still long enough to read a book or be read to. They are hyperactive or heavily medicated with little or no “in-between.” It’s constantly zero to sixty because their diets send their blood sugar soaring. They eat complete sugary meals for breakfast lunch, and seventy percent of their dinner is comprised of carbohydrate foods. And let’s not forget the so-called healthy snacks that are mostly sugar as well. Yes, whole grains are nothing more than longer chains of sugar. You might feel full a little faster than after eating more processed stuff, but its still enough to send their blood sugar soaring and leave them crashing afterwards.
Is it any wonder that children don’t play outside all day and night as they did in generations past? All we have done is increase the amount of sugar that children consume all in the name of healthy eating. It’s only getting worse, not better. High fructose corn syrup is in most things on supermarket shelves. Even in foods that you couldn’t imagine they would be found in. All in the name of getting cheap foods to market. Even in whole wheat bread, there are 48 grams of carbohydrate in a single sandwich with two slices of bread. Sure, it’s less than white bread but not much better. The average person can only safely consume about 83 grams of carbohydrate per day. A single sandwich and the blood sugar is toast. Wash that baby down with a Coke and that’s all she wrote.
Now, comes the “experts” wondering about cholesterol screening for children. They eat the same pathetic diet that their parents eat, albeit with even more sugar in most cases and we wonder why they are starting to experience the dreaded chronic diseases of civilization faster than their parents or grandparents did.
In a report published in the journal Pediatrics, they call for screening of all children, expanding one set of current recommendations that target only those whose parents or grandparents have heart disease or high cholesterol. Another existing set of guidelines doesn’t call for screening in any children. Neal said treating youth with cholesterol-lowering drugs, the so-called statins, would curb the risk that they would go on to develop heart problems in middle age. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the Western world.
This is the absolute saddest part. The prescription to the madness created by the standard American diet. Going on statins to ward off a possible heart attack. People are more afraid of heart attacks than any other thing. Recall that the present theory is that a lifetime of eating fat is what clogs your arteries. But these children who eat diets laden with sugar with very little meat are able to clog their arteries and raise their cholesterol at a rate some three times greater than their parents if the present theory is to be believed. That means that children must be swallowing tons more meat than their parents did. Wait, it’s the “fatty foods” which are french fries, pastries and other baked goods. That part is probably accurate. These are refined and easily digestible carbohydrate foods, not meats.
If you don’t want your children (or yourselves) on statins, change your diet not your prescription. It’s much cheaper and it is guaranteed to work, unlike the pills which might work or they might not. You might escape the heart attack with the pills but you’re still hundreds of times more likely to manifest some other chronic disease as long as you eat improperly.
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