Paul McCartney - Up and Coming Tour Brasil 2010

Exposing the potential manipulation of data linking cholesterol to heart disease by pharmaceutical companies, leading to overprescription of statins and a $29 billion industry, questioning claims and motives. Statin Nation reveals the medical corruption that has led to the mass overprescription of cholesterol medications (statins). The film explains how the facts about cholesterol and heart disease have, for decades, been distorted by pharmaceutical companies keen to increase their profits. Cholesterol-lowering has become a huge global industry, generating at least $29 billion each year.