Health with a pill?

I encountered an interesting article today.

It stated, that if there was a pill that would be claimed to prevent diseases, 64% of the readers of that magazine were eager to take that pill.  A bit of cholesterol prevention medicine, a bit of blood pressure prevention and aspirine, what else? 

Are we really trusting our health to a preventive pill (which is artificial by nature, nobody knows about the side effects etc etc...)?

Why do we think we are better in control of our life and illnesses that way, and why do we believe that everything is well when we think we control it with medicine? Interesting.

I earlier also read about a study/studies, with which it has been proven, that we actually can prevent specifically coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes significantly with a certain set of lifestyle and nutritional combination (there were other studies too but these were extremely specific).

If you are a non-smoker, your BMI is less than 25kg/m2, you exercise around half an hour a day, you are considered to be eating healthy (low in trans-fat, low glycogemic load, high fish, high fiber, high total folate and moderate alcohol consumption (1 drink max every other day). If people would live like this in general, 82 % of the coronary heart diseases would be avoidable (the best heart medicine prevents the disease only by 25 %). The same set applies with type 2 diabetes, except that with 92% of that disease could be avoided.

Isn't it interesting that in that study only 3.1% of the people fell into this kind of category, i.e. had the required balance in lifestyle.

I belive with nutrition and healthy habits we could prevent more diseases than with a pill.

What do you think?

Why is it difficult to be kind to your body (and soul) by nature, and prevent these things naturally as it is quite possible?