Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 01, 1960
May 31, 1960
June 02, 1960
Transcript:
Charlie Brown watches as Snoopy looks at the food in his food-dish. They're standing in the grass.<br> <br> Charlie Brown watches as Snoopy walks away.<br> <br> Charlie Brown looks at the food in Snoopy's food-dish.<br> <br> Charlie Brown says, "That's the only dog I know who worries about his cholesterol level!"<br> <br>
In 1960 there was very little that could be done about hyperlipidemia other than lifestyle changes, which as everyone knows are very hard to make stick and sometimes aren’t even all that effective. There were a few lipid-lowering drugs available at the time but they were largely poorly tolerated. The first truly effective and safe lipid-lowering drugs, the statin family, were discovered in the late 1970s and didn’t come into wide use until the late 1980s.