Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk
Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of 1 so that customers can reduce the heart disease dangers of fatty food, researchers at Imperial College London 2 in a new
study.
Statins reduce the 3 of unhealthy ”LDL” cholesterol in the blood. A wealth of trial data has proven them to be highly effective at lowering a person’s heart attack 4 .
In a paper published in the American Journal of Cardiology，Dr Darrel Francis and colleagues calculate that the reduction in heart attack risk offered by a statin is 5 to offset the increase in heart attack risk from 6 a cheeseburger and drinking a milkshake.
Dr Francis，from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London，who is the senior author of the study, said:”Statins don’t cut out a11 of the 7 effects of cheeseburgers and French fries.It’s better to avoid fatty food altogether.But we’ve worked out that in terms of your 8 of having a heart attack. Taking a statin can reduce your risk to more or less the same 9 as a fast food meal increases it.” “It’s ironic that people are free to take as many unhealthv condiments in fast food outlets as they 10 , but statins, which are beneficial to heart health, have to be prescribed. It makes sense to make risk-reducing statins available just as easily as the unhealthy condiments that are l 1 free of charge.It would cost less than 5 pence per 1 2 一not much different to a sachet of sugar.” Dr Francis said.
When people engage in risky behaviours like driving or smoking, they’re encouraged to take 13 that lower their risk, 1ike 14 a seatbelt or choosing cigarettes with filters. Taking a statin is a rational way of 1 5 some of the risks of eating a fatty meal.
詞匯：
statin/'stæ tIn! n.降膽固醇藥物
outlet/'autlit/ n.銷售點(diǎn)
cholesterol/ kə'lestərɔl / n.膽固醇
offset /,ɔf'set/ V. 抵消，補(bǔ)償
cheeseburger/ 'tʃi:z,bə:ɡə / n.芝士漢堡包
milkshake! 'milkʃeik / n.奶昔
condiment /'kɔndimənt]! n .調(diào)味品
sachet /'sætʃei / ii .小袋，小包
rational / 'ræʃənəl / adj.合理的
注釋：
1. Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs: 句中的could 是一種委婉表達(dá)建議的用詞，意為“可以”。
2. Imperial College London: 帝國理工學(xué)院。該學(xué)院于1907 年由城市和行會學(xué)校、皇家礦業(yè)學(xué)校以及皇家科學(xué)學(xué)院合并組成。學(xué)院于2007 年7月正式脫離倫敦大學(xué)成為一所獨(dú)立大學(xué)。提供本科和研究生教育，共有四個學(xué)院，工程學(xué)院、醫(yī)學(xué)院、自然科學(xué)院和生命科學(xué)院
3. LDL cholesterol: 低密度脂蛋白膽固醇。LDL是low density lipoprotein(低密度脂蛋白)的縮寫形式。
4. a wealth of trial data: 大量的試驗(yàn)數(shù)據(jù)。a wealth of意為“大量的，許多”。
5. American Journal of Cardiology: 美國心臟病學(xué)雜志
6. French fries:炸薯?xiàng)l
7.It makes sense...: make sense 意為“說得通，合情合理”。
8. a sachet of sugar: 一小袋糖�？觳偷暌话銈溆写�，供飲咖啡或熱奶的顧客免費(fèi)取用。
