Your pediatrician wants to give your kid Lipitor

To quote Tevye from “Fiddler on the Roof,” this idea “sounds crazy, no”?

At the very least, the idea that 8-year-old kids should be taking cholesterol-reducing drugs sound very narrow-minded.

Now, it may not be your kid that gets Lipitor. Only if he or she is overweight and has bad LDL cholesterol. So, this message may not apply to you. Given that one-third of American children are considered overweight, though, it may well apply to you.

And, yes, the American Academy of Pediatrics gives lip service to more exercise and better all-around diet, but from the way the story reads to me, that’s all it is, is lip service.

It’s like pediatricians are tired of battling parents who are themselves either tired of or never started battling Big Ag’s and Big Food’s flood of Saturday morning commercials.

It’s also not very holistic medicine.