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Lower Cholesterol With Food

     Statin drugs are extremely popular in the United States because one third of all Americans have high cholesterol. Doctors are apparently telling people that they have a family predisposition for high cholesterol before they suggest they take a statin drug. I do object to them lying to people, but in the end 97% of Americans will not stop eating meat, and that same 97% is very hard to manipulate as far as how much meat they eat.      Anytime I look up the statistics over the last 30 years they are consistent: no more than 3% of Americans eat vegetarian in any given decade and the amount of people who eat vegan within that 3% is 1% of the American population, so about a third of vegetarians are vegans, and that's it.      America has factory farming, and to some degree subsidizes at least the water going out to some farms so that beef, chicken, pork and dairy products are cheaper than they should be, making Americans eat more of them than ...