Instant ramen is bad for you? So what?

Pay now, or pay later. That seems to be the lesson from all the medical research revealing what food is bad for you.

The revelations about instant ramen — the dietary mainstay of college students and others of the under-employed population — were disheartening. Your heart, in fact, is exactly what would suffer most from overconsumption of these fat-filled, sodium-infused noodle soups.

They’re cheap and tasty, just like the things off the fast-food value menu. But researchers say the true cost may be incurred years later: cardiovascular disease.

Will any of this dire news stop anyone from buying the stuff?

Don’t bet on it.