I’ll have a STATIN shake and Quarter Pounder with Cheese, please.

The science is clear. Stop eating an American diet, stop smoking, start exercising and you will cut your cancer risks by 30% and significantly lower you risk, possibly to 0%, for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. It is that easy.
For reasons I, and obviously others do not understand, people continue to eat unhealthy diets and place themselves at risk for future diseases.
Pharmaceutical companies bank on these folks. The waistlines of these companies expand with every pill and slug of water people down. However, as patent protection reaches the expiratory deadline, new uses for products are sought after. New use patents are real commodities.
Today, I read a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology that just might have pharmaceutical patent attorneys chomping at their bits.
The article juxtaposed the risky behavior of fast food consumption with the risk reduction of statin use.
The authors reasoned that individuals who engage in risky behaviors, i.e. motorcycle riding, driving, smoking or eating at fast food establishments often minimize those risks with other safety precautions such as helmets, seat belts, cigarette filters and statins.
The authors concluded that statins neutralize the risk of eating a Quarter Pounder with cheese and a shake. They claim benefit to risk reduction is significant enough that statins should be offered as a condiment along with the pickles, lettuce and tomatoes.
I’ll have a statin shake and Quarter Pounder with cheese, please. Oh, add the equivalent kid sized dose to the kids meal too.