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New guidelines suggest that 13 million more Americans should be taking statins to prevent heart disease.

Are you one of them?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have issued controversial recommendations about cholesterol lowering medications.

If doctors followed the new guidelines, most people over 60 would be prescribed statins when cardiologist urges restraint.

A diagnosis of appendicitis has traditionally led to emergency surgery.

A new study has doctors rethinking this reflex.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we'll find out if Internet use is a benefit or a hazard for mental health.

And we'll take your calls and questions.

First, this news.

In the People's pharmacy health headlines,

sugar may be an unexpected contributor to death from heart disease.

For decades, Americans were told to reduce the amount of fat in their diets.

Food companies compensated for the loss of flavor in low-fat

foods by adding sugar. Over the last several decades, sugar consumption has increased substantially.

Now, an epidemiological study called the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

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