Researchers Propose Serving Free Cholesterol Drugs With Fast Food Meals

Good, I hate fat people, they make the planes fall out of the sky.

If this happens, fat people will keep getting fatter, and danget they'll live longer.

It would be a good idea (especially since statins have very low risk compared to many other drugs), except for a few things.

1) This may start a precedent of people expecting to get pills with their [insert risk here].

2) Because of the pills, people won't just use the pills to help combat what they're currently eating. Instead, they'll take it as a license to eat more crappy foods, which we can all agree isn't a good thing now.

-IMP ;) :)

On behalf of fat people everywhere I have to say "screw you" Stephen and Taysoren.

And in response to the article regardless of how large you are I absolutely do not want to be dosed without consent or knowledge with drugs of any sort. This will just give people excuses to keep eating, has the potential to overdose especially those already on prescriptions as well as interfering/conflicting with compounds some people may already be taking.

If this gets implemented you'll be hearing lines like, "I can't go to that resturant, my doctor said the statins they feed you might kill me."

I wonder if you could "hold the lipitor" as the article puts it or if it would be like individually packaged aspirin.

do you want drugs with that burger?

no I don't

Just have them sprinkle some red yeast rice over the fries and hamburger and you can call it a seasoning for added flavor. Or just serve it with a side of some oyster mushrooms.
Don't have to get pills involved, there's lots of ways to get your statins that won't scare the sheep because you call it a drug.

Isn't this a backward way of solving the problem? It's like hitting someone in the face and then give them a bag of ice and tell them "it cancels out".

Not a grand concept. They only have condiments because people demand them. If they didn't have to, they wouldn't.

Also, if you advertised them as 'health pills', some would take a few and proceed to order another double cheeseburger

What we SHOULD be doing is FORCING the government to FORCE these companies to include vegetable lecithin / plant oils as a REPLACEMENT for some of this fat found in our foods. THAT way we can be MUCH healthier.

"In older people, if sufficient lecithin was present in the blood, the blood fat level returned to normal in about three hours after a high fat meal. But, if there wasn't sufficient lecithin in the blood, fat and cholesterol levels remained high for as long as twenty hours."

@ironjustice I personally think that the government has no right to force these companies to do anything. They [the companies] are the ones offering the service; we as customers can either choose to accept it or reject it. I think people in society need to work on their self-discipline rather than forcing the governement to wipe our arse. I would hope they have better things to worry about.

The easiest solution is just not eat to those foods in the first place. Make your own healthy food. Heart attack issued solved, world peace will follow afterwards, and flying cars will come naturally after all is said and done.

-Suffer, learn and change.

Everyone in London thinks we're all 250 pounds, and there's an Old Country Buffet on every corner. That's only 90% true.

I agree with Regen. It's more of a cop out than a solution. Then again, I don't know if it's the fast food companies faults. I think a lot of the problem lies within the people who eat everything in site...and sit on their asses all day. I live in the least obese state in America, and we eat fast food, but we also go outdoors and exercise. I used to live in Tennessee... which is the 4th worst obese state in America. They also eat fast food... but they are bigger?

Get off the couch. Go outside. Do something.

Problem solved.

What ever happened to Olestra? A few cry babies complain about

***ANAL LEAKAGE***

and suddenly the cure to to plague of the 21st century is Kaput? At least Pringles still use it even if its only 50%.

Hooray Anal Leakage!

What is it about the past 10-20 years where everything HAS to be solved with a pill?

Pharmacuetical companies have grown exponentially rich with all these drugs. Doctors get "bonuses" for being pushers too. And thats not speculation on my end, I have seen it first-hand as I work in the medical industry.

We have everything from anti-depression pills that cause suicidal thoughts to pills to help with restless legs while sleeping? How about the great adds that say that pills to help you sleep MAY cause drowsy-ness? (oh, and may cause suicidal thoughts...love that one).

While I agree that there are some situations that truly warrant medication, I would venture out and say that 80-90% of the time we are over-medicating.

Adding yet another drug w/ potential for who-knows-what-side-effects (low-risk or not) on such a large scale does nothing to help people learn self-control and responsibility for their own actions.

And I totally disagree with ironjustice...having the govt dictate what people can or cannot do is a basic voilations of human rights and our innate freedom.

Besides, it never stops with simple "helping" rules when talking about people in power. All of history shows that.

Sorry...the meds prescribed for me to be able to stand stupidity are almost gone.

I'm not too sure that statins can just be freely dispensed and ingested as the article suggests. I take statins myself (Crestor) and it wasn't without some trepidation as this type of drug has quite a range of possible side effects (muscle damage is one)and they directly affect kidney function. So I was taken aback by the proposal. I hope the article doesn't give the wrong idea that you can just binge out on bacon cheeseburgers with wild abandon and just pop statins to counter-act the effects. They go together with responsible dieting and there should always be medical supervision. Binge-out reality shows like "Man vs. Food" aren't very helpful either. Everything in moderation, folks.

As far as I saw there were no Arbys in London, or the UK for that matter.

So, how does this work if you can't take statins? Or worse, you discover you can't take statins by swallowing your free handout?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something -- but high cholestoral isn't the only problem with eating excessive fast foods, right? The statins are only there for that one particular issue, so what makes everyone think that peopel will start eating more because of it? when I eat fast food I am more concerned about the calories than the cholestrol, and this doesn't seem like a fix for that, so I'm not gonna start doubling up...

A lot of things are screwed up in this world. Like how certain things like viagra are perceived as scams, while people laugh and giggle at that cool Coke commercial, or that McDonald's toy. Er... you're getting poisoned gradually by these fast food chains people..

Azn, Founder of digital camera deals and serial entrepreneur

Some questions:

1.) Are statins cheap?
2.) Are they as harmless as aspirin?
3.) Is there an overdose that is easily reached?
4.) Are they harmless to children?

Some questions:

1.) Are statins cheap?
2.) Are they as harmless as aspirin?
3.) Is there an overdose that is easily reached?
4.) Are they harmless to children?