As Smith and Pinckney conclusively demonstrate, all thirty or so studies completed before 1990 showed that you could lower cholesterol to your heart’s content without adding a single day to your life. John Abramson, M.D., a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of Overdosed America, summed up the problem perfectly in the medical journal The Lancet: “You can lower cholesterol with a drug, yet provide no health benefits whatsoever. And dying with corrected cholesterol is not a successful outcome.”
