More young adults on cholesterol-lowering drugs

It's quite frightening to hear that cholesterol-lowering drugs are being used more by younger adults than even among the senior citizen population, but a report released this week said just that.

What does this mean? Are generations starting with those in their early twenties completely dependent on dead, over-processed and chemically-rich foods that our bodies are responding with increasing bad cholesterol levels?

Or, are more medications being prescribed to treat cholesterol than are needed? Hard to say, but higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure and related problems were referenced in the report in the younger generation of U.S. citizens. That right there tells me nutrition and exercise are, well, on opposite sides of the daily spectrum for many. As in, bad nutrition and inadequate exercise. Do you agree?