I stopped thinking about deadly bacteria and started thinking about the tasty bacon halfway through a spinach salad tonight. The only acceptable reason to eat spinach is nutrition, and the only reason to eat bacon is that it tastes good. Let the complex carbohydrates and cholesterol duke it out in my digestive track, I thought, and was reminded of a teaser-announcement this week about the next potentially breakthrough lifestyle drug.

Steven Nissen, president of the American College of Cardiology, told a harvard university audience that the FDA in January should receive the final results for clinical trials of a drug that raises high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) or "good" cholesterol. Statins, the best-selling pharmaceuticals in world history, bring down low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) or "bad" cholesterol.

I'm not on statins yet, but the way things are going, which is to say heredity, I will be. But that's not what I want. What I want is for someone to make a pig with good cholesterol.