The story about giving Statins to children as young as 8 is already ubiquitous, but a few versions of the story are adding that pediatricians are recommending that children with high cholesterol not be told of their predicament, because they’re worried that all the stress caused by the news would distract them from their school work.
As if their “school work” doesn’t peddle panic and paranoia about the environment and global warming. It seems as if telling them about cholesterol would relax them by comparison.
