More Ugh

Sleeping pills.

Statins.

Meat.

All these have been in the news recently.  The news being that they will probably contribute to your failing health and early death.

Studies have shown that sleeping pills like Ambien, Lunesta, and Sonata, even 20 pills a year, can significantly raise the chance that you'll develop cancer and/or die.

Another study shows that statins, drugs like Lipitor, Crestor, and Zocor that help lower cholesterol, raise your risk for Type 2 diabetes and will probably result in 100,000 new statin-induced diabetics.

And meat.  Eating meat raises your chances of heart disease, cancer, and death.  When it's bacon or processed meats, the risk rises up to 20%.

Wow.

Are we doing anything right food and medicine-wise?  It's all relatively dire.