Would you like a statin with that?

[coreyfyfe]

As much as I like the idea of doctors dispensing pills for everything because it keeps me employed, this seems a bit ridiculous:

McDonald's, Burger King and other fast food outlets should offer diners free drugs to compensate for the risk of heart disease, cardiologists proposed today.

If burger joints offered cholesterol-lowering statins, customers would offset the unhealthy effects of a cheeseburger and milkshake, according to researchers at Imperial College London.

The pills could be placed beside the salt, pepper and tomato ketchup to encourage people to pop one after their meal.

The suggestion is made in a paper by Dr Darrel Francis, a cardiologist at Imperial's National Heart and Lung Institute, and colleagues published in the American Journal of Cardiology.

At least they also said this:

The idea was criticised by leading doctors, who said the study could encourage ill-health by prompting even greater consumption of junk food and increasing the belief in "a pill for every ill".

Full story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...-heart-disease

[MatticusMania]

That is ludicrous!

So, the pharmaceutical corporations first get people hooked on fatty, unhealthy food, then they get you hooked on a pill that is supposed to offset the resulting damage to your body from eating said food?

Profit!