Some years ago a specialist surgeon I knew and who is now the dearly departed, said more or less the following words to someone else I know.
'Your cholesterol is 7.5 and I was thinking that you should go on to a trial of 5mg Crestor daily to see if that will bring your rather high level down to something less fur raising and potentially lethal. However, you've just reminded me that you eat steak by the 1/2 kg, chocolate by the 1/2 kg and ice cream by the l. Because I know that you will totally ignore my dietary recommendations, I'm going to put you on 10mg a day. Then you can eat and drink what you like and your cholesterol will decrease to within acceptable limits and your arteries will slowly, over time, open up.
Thus was it so!
This is an excellent example of medicine being made to successfully serve the man, leading to a state of dietary bliss with no collateral damage worth a fig, Newton or otherwise.'