You want statins with that?(statins help ward off cardiovascular disease and could be used as a treatment for other disorders)

Life was treating Harry Barninka just fine. In the mid- 1990s, the Sao Paulo insurance broker was in his mid-50s, prospering and reasonably fit, carrying 80 judiciously arranged kilos on his 1.8-meter frame. He exercised regularly, consulted a physician yearly and, except for a stinky-cigar habit and a soft spot for churrasco (fatty barbecued meat so popular in Brazil), managed to keep mostly to a sensible diet. So in 1996, when he called on his doctor for a checkup before a planned trip to Israel, he had good reason to expect it would be a routine in-and- outer. It wasn't. Barninka didn't make the flight. In fact, "I never left the hospital," he says. "My doctor told me ...