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完形填空（篇） *第十一篇 Climate Change Poses Major Risks for Unprepared Cities *第十二篇 Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk*第十二篇??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 w