I found this from Adam Wilk, "Lipitor for the Little," reproduced in Low Carb Newsline:

http://www.lowcarbnewsline.com/article.asp?colid=7674

The original article is here:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/82469.php

Basically, they are advocating cholesterol screening at 15 months of age. The purpose is to detect familial hypercholesterolemia, which is RARE and does increase heart disease risk. Of course, the solution is STATINS. I haven't seen anyone advocate statins for younger children, but some do for teenagers or maybe pre-teens. However, I wouldn't put it past the statin-pushing medical establishment to eventually start advocating statins for younger & younger children.

Our pediatrician is already worried about my son's (age 10) cholesterol and says he should go on a low fat diet. I just need to get him off sugar and to cut back on starches. This is no easy task as we fell into bad eating habits before I saw the light of low carb. At least I'm setting the example.

For a better analysis on the whole children & cholesterol issue, see the following at Junkfood Science.

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/0...ed-consent.html

IMHO, it's just another way to boost drug company revenues.

OMG!

By the way, Low Carb Newsline is my site, too! I've always loved Adam Wilk's writing style and am happy to have him as one of my contributing writers there.

I read this too....can you imagine what this will do to their brain development?

Sad...since cholesterol is not a cause of heart disease, high or low!