What if in the next few years you could walk into any fast food restaurant order, and get a cholesterol drug with your big mac and french fries? A little insane if I do say so myself!
Researchers from the Imperial College in London have made recent discoveries that if you give a statin (like lipitor) out with each meal ordered at a fast food restaurant that it would cancel out the cholesterol you gain from eating the meal in the first place. This was discovered after doctors studied how heart attacks were increased by a persons fat in take. They then compared this with their research that found certain statins were able to decrease the risk of heart attack. In conclusion they realized that taking a statin with your greasy/fatty meal would be better for your heart.
Today in the United States obesity is a huge issue. About 24 million Americans take statins already to decrease the risk of heart attack so what if the majority of the country started taking them too? It would bring a handful of other issues into light. Researchers say they don't want this to be taken the wrong way and that a statin is not to be used as a "magic pill." Because this may be used as a solution for our country's over consumption of fast food experts say it could actually increase the intake of fast food in the long run and it might just increase our problem with obesity too.
Today in the United States obesity is a huge issue. About 24 million Americans take statins already to decrease the risk of heart attack so what if the majority of the country started taking them too? It would bring a handful of other issues into light. Researchers say they don't want this to be taken the wrong way and that a statin is not to be used as a "magic pill." Because this may be used as a solution for our country's over consumption of fast food experts say it could actually increase the intake of fast food in the long run and it might just increase our problem with obesity too.
Dr. Darrel Francis a key person dealing with this study talks a little bit about the idea on Fox News
They say the drug would cost a little less then seven cents per customer at fast food chains. A clinical trial of this was done on 43,000 participants and was published in The American Journal of Cardiology in August of this year.
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