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The issue of “good” and “bad” cholesterol is perhaps one of the most pervasive medical myths out there, created and perpetuated by pharmaceutical advertising. Dr. Ron Rosedale is an expert in the field, and if you didn’t already watch the video in today’s article How You Have Been Fooled by Good and Bad Cholesterol, make sure you take a look at it now.

Very few people are educated correctly on cholesterol -- how it’s really all about your LDL particle sizes, not your overall LDL level.

The only way to truly correct your underlying problem is through diet. By eliminating sugar and most grains, you will effectively reduce your insulin and leptin levels, which are the underlying causes that create LDL particles that are too small to circulate without sticking to the interior walls of your arteries.

There’s not a single pharmaceutical drug that can modulate LDL particle sizes.

To normalize your cholesterol level naturally, these three primary strategies work well 99 percent of the time if properly implemented: daily exercise; eating a low grain, low sugar diet; and, taking a high quality omega-3 supplement.

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Labels: cholesterol, drugs, eating healthy, healthy diet

The vast majority of people taking antidepressants would be just as well off taking placebos, British researchers found.

Only a small group of the most severely depressed patients get a significant benefit from commonly prescribed drugs such as Prozac and Seroxat, according to the study published today.

Clinical trials of the new generation of antidepressants - known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) - showed they work no better than a placebo for patients with mild or even severe depression, the University of Hull researchers found.

Irving Kirsch, a professor of psychology who led the study team, found that most patients benefit just as much from physical therapy or psychotherapy as they can from drugs.

The study is the first to examine both published and unpublished trials of the effectiveness of the enormously popular SSRIs.

"The difference in improvement between patients taking placebos and patients taking antidepressants is not very great," Kirsch said. "This means that depressed people can improve without chemical treatments."

The new study, published today in the journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) Medicine, said all 47 clinical trials for the drugs came from data released by the US Food and Drug Administration under freedom of information rules.

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Labels: antidepressants, drugs, natural health, placebo