Fat Heads
The news that the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that children start taking cholesterol drugs at age 8 and continue for the rest of their lives is appalling on a number of fronts.
Of course, it speaks to the overriding issue of obesity in youngsters today. How else to explain the billions sold at the arches? And the baskets of crap, packaged foods flying out of supermarkets shelves.
But more than that this unholy recommendation says so much about the grip held by BIG PHARMA on medicos and the general public.
What incentives were the Academy given to suggest in public and with a straight face that kids should be pill poppers for life?
Could they be more irresponsible or more beholden to the industry?
2 comments:
It is sick, isn't it?
What kind of person would suggest something like that?
It's clear our society has broken down on a very fundamental level.
Of course they could be more beholden...they could require more drugs be part of pre-natal care!
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