Exercising and Healthy Diet Leads to Better Adjusted, Healthier Adults
The focus on cholesterol levels in children diverts doctors' and parents' attention away from doing what we know will help kids to grow up healthy (see healthy lifestyle argument). The narrow attention to cholesterol creates the illusion that this is the most effective way to help kids with elevated cholesterol grow up healthy. From a holistic point of view, kids getting exercise by playing with other kids and learning about eating a healthy diet will lead to better adjusted and healthier adults.
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All you seem to be saying here is that there are other components to health besides cholesterol level. Fine, but so what? Surely no one is arguing that children should be barred from exercising or eating healthy foods, and only given statins.
Are you perhaps trying to argue that healthy diet and exercise WITHOUT cholesterol-lowering drugs is always a better formula than healthy diet and exercise WITH the drugs? If so, you should have actually made that point, instead of merely using the word "healthy" five times in three sentences and calling it a day.