Walking and eating sensibly is free. Even a balance oatmeal, rice & beans with infrequent meat servings would defend against heart disease better than expensive medicine, at less than $1 / day.
Funny you should use the word "bang". My last experiment with lentils years ago began one evening with 3 excellent bowls of very tasty lentil soup and ended slowly with 2 days' worth of "bangs", quickly followed by ostracism by my house buddies. So bad!
Promoting good habits is good but this is health advice from an unlicensed commenter to say rice and beans is better than taking a statin. Consult your doctor if you’re curious what to do.
You right. You don't need statins. Nobody does. But look at the statistics. You might also drop dead tomorrow. It's hard to know. If you think eating and exercising would solve heart disease, you are mis-informed. It's the number one killer. If we all died at 30, the drugs would not need to exist. I'm sure you would like to live as long as you can. Taking statins is cheap and simple for most people.
Yes, our system is most definitely stacked against the poor, but it's important to also remember that we all have free will and that some choices fully within our power are much better than others.
nicotine is likely one of the best appetite-control , cognative-enhancing and anti-anxiety medications ever known to man. A large driver of obesity , anxiety and psychotropic abuse was smoking cessation.
Giving out nicotine gum , would decimate the drugs industry, but likely resolve a lot of our chronic health and depression issues.
tonymet says >nicotine is likely one of the best appetite-control , cognative-enhancing and anti-anxiety medications ever known to man.<
Is this not under-reported? I have known several people for whom smoking appears to be truly necessary. One said he was prescribed smoking to control his "shakes".
