The FDA is upside down on their food pyramid. There is no chemical pathway that takes fat in the diet to fat in the arteries. There is no scientific proof that relates low cholesterol (especially statins) to longer life spans.
The root cause is too much sugar and too many carbs in the diet.
I switched to a ketogenic way of eating about a year ago because of this and other reasons. A few years ago, the side affects after about a month on statins seemed destined to kill me.