Free Statins WithFast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk

Fast food outletscould provide statin drugs free of______(51)so that customers can re-duce theheart disease dangers of fatty food,researchers at Imperial College

London______(52)in anew study.

Statins reducethe______(53)of unhealthy"LDL"cholesterol in the blood.A wealth oftrial data has proven them to be highly effective at______(54)a person's heartattack risk.

In a paper publishedin the American Journal of Cardiology,Dr. Darrel Francis and col-leaguescalculate that the reduction in heart attack risk offered by a statinis______(55)

to off-set theincrease in heart attack risk from______(56)a cheeseburger and drinking amilk-shake.

Dr. Francis,from theNational Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London,who is the seniorauthor of the study,said,"Statins don't cut out all ofthe______(57)effects

of che-eseburgersand French fries .It's better to avoid fatty food altogether. But we've workedout that in terms of your______(58)of having a heart attack,taking a statin can

reduce your risk tomore or less the same______(59)as a fast food meal increases it."

"It's ironicthat people are free to take as many unhealthy condiments in fast food outletsas they______(60),but statins,which are beneficial to heart health,have to be

prescribed.It______(61)senseto make risk-reducing stains available just as easily as the unhealthycondi-ments that are provided free of charge .It would cost less than 5

pence per______(62）-not much different to a sachet ofsugar,"Dr. Francis said.

When people engagein risky behaviours like driving or smoking,they're encouraged totake______(63)that lower their risk,like______(64)a seatbelt or choosingcigarettes

with flu-ters.Taking a statin is a rational way of______(65)some of the risks of eating afatty meal.64._________

A.buying

B. wearing

C. cleaning

D. changing