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Hi ollie..re: medication causing deaths..I have noticed that there is a large anti-medication community, who instead of pills, promote herbal concoctions or sell books, etc. In other words, it's always about money..and they are trying to scoop up as much as they can of the money spent on health care for themselves.

While I agree that statins do not reverse heart damage...who is to say that Russert may have died at age 48 if he had not taken medications?

I remember him mentioning in an interview years ago that he had heart problems, and was dealing with them on his doctors advice..with diet and exercise. He specifically said he spent nearly an hour a day on an Air-Dyne exercise bike.

Probably he did not maintain the diet and exercise standards that may have prolonged his life..if that was the case..why would it be different if he read that book being promoted?..since that was two central tenets of the advice in the book?

The principal difference, as I see it, was that $40 of Russert's money would be in the hands of someone who knows no more about health than you or me. Regards.