Cholesterol Medication

I find the whole cholesterol issue very concerning. The fact that my arteries are slowly furring up so eventually I may get a blockage and heart attack is scary to me. I think that I eat quite well but I have no idea how much damage my body already has, especially as I know a lot of my family have cholesterol problems and I have no idea if there is a generic link. My Mother once told me that her doctor thought that every person should be taking cholesterol pills. I can see why this woudl be a great idea, there would be far less risk of blocked arteries and we woudl all be less likley to get heart attacks. However,there are quite a few disadvantages to this as well. Firstly the expense of course. Secondly that maybe we wudl all take it easy, execise less, eat more unhealthily and then we might put ourselves at risk from other diseases instead, perhaps the rates of heart disease may fall but cancer may increase. I think that we have to just accept that there is no magic pill that will mean we can get away with an unhealthy lifestyle and we need to do what we can to look after ourselevs and our families as well as we can.