The American Heart Association recommends that children at age 5 be screened for high cholesterol. This is nuts. According to Deutsch and Ravnskov, there is no correlation between cholesterol in children and either mortality or morbidity. Moreover, at least one study shows that half the young children with high cholesterol had low cholesterol 12 years later without any intervention. Finally, since diet does little to change cholesterol levels significantly, this will end up being a push to get young children on statin drugs, the long-term effects of which are unknown.

Where will this absurdity stop?

Sheldon