Niacin does everything right for the cholesterol profile: lowers total and bad cholesterol, raises good cholesterol, reduces   triglycerides and Lp(a) - nicknamed the "heart attack cholesterol," - and other favorable changes. It reduces heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.

The statins (Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Mevacor, Lescol) do only one thing well: lower bad cholesterol.

Niacin is not a do-it-yourself drug. It requires knowledgeable medical supervision.

Niacin's side effects are easily managed. This book tells how.

Niacin has a 48-year safety record. The first statin reached the market in 1987; the other four were marketed in the 1990's, one as late as 1997.

Bayer withdrew Baycol (a statin) in 2001 after it caused 31 deaths in the US.

The Washington watchdog group, Public Citizen, reviewing FDA records, found that the 5 remaining statins on the US market have caused 81 deaths.

The new chapters tell about What's Wrong with the 2001 Cholesterol Guidelines?, drug advertising and your cost of drugs, and questions the author has answered on radio talk shows.

Also an important study in which niacin plus Zocor reduced coronary events by 70% but found that antioxidants did not reduce events and blunted the niacin-Zocor effect!

As in the first edition, it tells the reader how to interpret medical articles in the news and what to say to the doctor to be sure he is good at using niacin.

The Obesity Epidemic causes heart attacks, diabetes, and worn-out weight-bearing joints.