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The latest market development in pharmaceuticals: prescribing statin drugs to kids as young as 8 years old. This is truly a sin, since preventing heart disease is relatively easy and safe, compared to the side-effects of statin drugs. In fact, the PDR says that the recommended drug should only be used after the diet approach has failed - not as a supplement to or replacement for improving the diet.

In the free market, it is always better to let a problem happen, and then introduce a new product to remedy that problem. When a problem is prevented - like when heart disease is prevented by switching to a low-calorie, meat- and dairy-free diet - money is saved. Preventing problems means people spend less money fixing the problems, and that removes the profit motive.