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ricky's avatar

Not a fan of statins. Went through all of them and had severe muscle pain each time. For me, the only cholesterol drug without side effects is Praluent.

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Jonathan Ray's avatar

A pigouvian tax* on added sugars and pigouvian subsidy* for fiber in foods and beverages would probably accomplish orders of magnitude more for public health. But people would be mad, and this administration would never do it.

* not in the sense of classical externalities, but in the sense of people's hyperbolic-discounting, marshmellow-test-failing monkey brains making decisions that impose costs on their future selves who effectively didn't get to participate in the decision.

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