What are statins?
It’s Sunday morning and your husband has decided to prepare you a lovely breakfast in bed. You smell bacon frying, toast toasting and you hear the clang of the metal whisk as it beats your soon-to-be scrambled eggs with cheese. You wipe the sleep from your eyes as he enters with a tray of hot food, a glass of cold milk and a red rose. What a guy. While your hubbie gets an ‘A’ for effort, he’s really not doing you any favors in the health department. That breakfast in bed is loaded with cholesterol, so if it becomes a regular ritual you could find yourself developing some health problems down the road — especially if heart disease runs in your family. Cholesterol isn’t all bad. The waxy substance that’s produced in the liver plays a vital role in the functioning of your body’s cells by making them waterproof
