I know this will raise a s**t storm, but if you are taking an expensive and very powerful drug like statin, you owe it to yourself to do some research. The case for a casual connection between moderately high cholesterol and CHD is vanishingly small. Even the large drug companies (for whom the statin industry is a $20 billion dollar/year paycheck) has not been able to produce convincing evidence of the relationship. The best that very large and very expensive drug company sponsored studies have been able to show is that statin drugs have about the same benefit for primary prevention of CHD as Bayer was able to show for aspirin, and nearly all the studies show no relationship between the lowering of cholesterol and lowering of coronary events (rather, any benefit was due to some other unknown effect of the drug). Conversely, there are a large number of convincing studies that confound the theory.

Which is not to say that you shouldn't eat your veggies. I do, but I eat them higher up the food chain....