Fish Oil Plus Red Yeast Rice Lowers Cholesterol
July 24, 2008
By Scott Welch
Okay, now the next time your aunt Shirley whines to you about her high cholesterol you can tell her to stop eating the donuts, get her ass to the gym and go eat some Fish Oil stacked with Red Yeast Rice (whatever the heck that stuff is)? A recent study published by the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that a combination of Fish Oil supplements, therapeutic lifestyle changes and Red Yeast Rice was as effective as the statin drug Simvastatin (pictured below) in lowering LDL-C cholesterol. The group taking supplements, who were also encouraged to lower their intake of saturated fats and to increase their daily exercise, also displayed larger reductions in triglycerides and weight loss than the Simvastatin group. 
Read the full study here: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/inside.asp?AID=4722&UID
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