UK - The daily super pill all men over 50 should take to avoid heart attacks

..................Introduced in the late Eighties, statins can, in rare cases, cause muscle pain and liver problems, leading some doctors to argue that the risk of the side-effects outweighs the benefits of the drugs for those not showing symptoms of heart disease. "With statins the downside is about as low as I have seen with any drug, but there is some downside,' added Professor Weissberg.
"You need to accrue quite a lot of information from clinical trials, but also from experience, before you take the sort of approach of putting fluoride in tap water."
Statins, which are thought to save up to 10,000 lives a year, are currently prescribed to survivors of heart attacks and strokes and to those whose cholesterol is much higher than normal.
However, doctors are being urged to prescribe them more widely, with new guidelines recommending they are handed out to all adults judged to have a one in five chance of developing heart disease in the next decade. Doing this would take the number of patients on the drugs to around six million and the annual bill to over £1billion.

Save us all from the crazy Medics. You can keep the Statins I'd rather take my chance with a good diet and healthy exercise. We all have to die of something and sometimes I think the people who die early from heart attacks are lucky compared to many who end up dribbling and incontinent in an old folks home.