What a load of rubbish.
Even your link calls it false.
Heart disease was killing people, and statins were saving them, long before covid.
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What a load of rubbish.
Even your link calls it false.
Heart disease was killing people, and statins were saving them, long before covid.
Keep in mind, all the side effects of statins, particularly what they did to me..
I wish you could keep in mind the front effects of statins, which is to save lives and the awful suffering caused by strokes and heart disease.
You might want to quote my whole instead of editing it to suit you
BBC criticised for letting cardiologist ‘hijack’ interview with false Covid jab claim
Aseem Malhotra’s ‘misguided’ views linking some Covid vaccines to excess heart disease deaths should not have aired, say experts
www.theguardian.com
No you deliberately missed off this bit
"That is what this cardiologist said anyway."
You were quoting me without that bit added to then make it look like the whole lot was my quote alone. But I should expect that kind of behaviour from you as you are a proven liar.
By chance, this news item happened to crop up today.
www.bbc.co.uk
"Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, used by millions, are far safer than previously thought, a major review has found.
Leaflets in packs should be changed to reflect this and avoid scaring people off using the life-saving pills, say the authors.
Statins do not cause the majority of the possible side effects listed, including memory loss, depression, sleep disturbance, weight gain and impotence, says the team funded by the British Heart Foundation. Meanwhile, they can slash a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes.
The results, in The Lancet journal, external, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo."
Statin pills much safer than advertised, major review finds
The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.
www.bbc.co.uk
"Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, used by millions, are far safer than previously thought, a major review has found.
Leaflets in packs should be changed to reflect this and avoid scaring people off using the life-saving pills, say the authors.
Statins do not cause the majority of the possible side effects listed, including memory loss, depression, sleep disturbance, weight gain and impotence, says the team funded by the British Heart Foundation. Meanwhile, they can slash a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes.
The results, in The Lancet journal, external, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo."
Well, to be fair to statins....
There has just been a piece on the BBC News about statins, and how they are wrongly blamed for many side effects.
I have been off them for months now, during which time, the weird episodes I was blaming statins for, gradually diminished in severity, so that sort of confirmed it was the statins - except, in the early hours of Thursday, I suffered another quite severe episode. I'm logging the incidents, and logged this one, in my attempts to work out what is causing them.
Since stopping the statins, they substituted ezetimibe, which coincided with my suffering knee and elbow joint pains, but only on waking - so bad, that the joints were seized up, on waking. The doc, advised me to also stop the ezetimibe two weeks ago, since when the pain has eased, but not completely cleared, so today, the doc has suggested restarting it, and wants me in for a face to face. Once 'unseized', my joints are fine, no pain at all.
The doc, the hospital, 111, etc., all seem as puzzled as I am by these episodes. For instance, this was what happened during the most recent episode....
I'd had a bit of a stressful, frustrating day, and I had got up unusually early. I retired to bed at 10pm, still quite restless. For the entire day, my hand had felt bruised and sore, as if I had thumped something hard, but I hadn't, and no sign of bruising. Very tired, but restless, at midnight, I felt an episode coming on - my arms felt very weak and heavy, so I got up, which seems to be the precursor to such an episode.
Having got up, I spent the next couple of hours, unable to settle to sit, lay down, work out whether I was too warm, or too cold, a feeling of intense doom, but with no physical pain anywhere, just the weak arms. They both felt like the do when you've had an injection, but much worse than that. When it diminished, I decided to make my way to bed, but as it often does, it immediately struck again, so I got back up. I eventually dozed off in the chair, then curled up to sleep properly on the settee for an hour. All back to normal, I finally went to bed around 4am.
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Well, never mind all the statin stuff - can't let thi go by...
Are they not.
Given that the correct way to prepare them is to roast them in beef dripping, or duck or goose fat if you can spare it, I'm not convinced that that is true.
People need to just face facts - roast potatoes are not healthy potatoes and healthy potatoes are not roast potatoes. If you're concerned, just don't eat them very often rather than **** around messing them up. A little cold pressed oil indeed.
Nope - dripping, goose or duck fat, and plenty of it, there should be at least 5mm of fat in the tin, and it should be smoking hot so that it doesn't go cold when you put the potatoes in, and while you're turning them over so that they are completely coated in fat before you put the tin back in the oven. If I can I'll heat the fat in an oven hotter than needed for cooking, then turn it down to the right temperature when I take the tin out to put the spuds in. If I'm doing a lot I'll put the tin on the hob to keep the temperature up.
Roughing up - I steam mine, not par-boil, so then I put the steamer on a plate, pick the whole thing up, oven gloves on, thumbs holding the lid down, and give it a good hard shake. Accept that you'll lose about 10-15% off the outsides.*
Floury ones best, of course, King Edwards probably my fave. No, you can't roast sweet potatoes. No, you can't roast new potatoes. No, you can't roast unpeeled potatoes.
And if the spuds in the magazine photo are supposed to be crispy I'll eat my next portion raw.
* But not wasted - what you've got left behind in the steamer is basically mash - stick it in a tub in the freezer, or fridge if it's not going to be very long, and add it to the next mash you make. Do taste it though - depending on the variety and age, maincrop potatoes can start to go a little sweet, and if that's happened to yours keep an eye on them when cooking as they'll go faster. Maybe lower the temperature a bit to stop them burning.
The wonderful news is that Roast potatoes are not necessarily bad for cholesterol or type 2 diabetes.
I'm already into my gut health so this hack interested me.
Roast potato hack could 'improve gut health' - and bag you crispier spuds
A woman has shared her hack for making the crispiest roast potatoes, and it also makes them healthier for you toowww.getsurrey.co.uk
Then I found this:
Roast potatoes are not bad for cholesterol if prepared correctly:
Are they not.
Given that the correct way to prepare them is to roast them in beef dripping, or duck or goose fat if you can spare it, I'm not convinced that that is true.
People need to just face facts - roast potatoes are not healthy potatoes and healthy potatoes are not roast potatoes. If you're concerned, just don't eat them very often rather than **** around messing them up. A little cold pressed oil indeed.
Nope - dripping, goose or duck fat, and plenty of it, there should be at least 5mm of fat in the tin, and it should be smoking hot so that it doesn't go cold when you put the potatoes in, and while you're turning them over so that they are completely coated in fat before you put the tin back in the oven. If I can I'll heat the fat in an oven hotter than needed for cooking, then turn it down to the right temperature when I take the tin out to put the spuds in. If I'm doing a lot I'll put the tin on the hob to keep the temperature up.
Roughing up - I steam mine, not par-boil, so then I put the steamer on a plate, pick the whole thing up, oven gloves on, thumbs holding the lid down, and give it a good hard shake. Accept that you'll lose about 10-15% off the outsides.*
Floury ones best, of course, King Edwards probably my fave. No, you can't roast sweet potatoes. No, you can't roast new potatoes. No, you can't roast unpeeled potatoes.
And if the spuds in the magazine photo are supposed to be crispy I'll eat my next portion raw.
* But not wasted - what you've got left behind in the steamer is basically mash - stick it in a tub in the freezer, or fridge if it's not going to be very long, and add it to the next mash you make. Do taste it though - depending on the variety and age, maincrop potatoes can start to go a little sweet, and if that's happened to yours keep an eye on them when cooking as they'll go faster. Maybe lower the temperature a bit to stop them burning.
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That sounded delicious..
