For at least some senior citizens, relaxing on the porch with a cup of tea just doesn’t cut it for entertainment — unless that tea happens to be spiked. The results of one of the largest-ever studies of substance abuse recently discovered that a surprising number of older adults enjoy binge drinking a bit too much....

It‘s not uncommon to hear someone who takes a statin drug (like Crestor, Lipitor or Zocor) complain of muscle aches and pains. But that‘s a fairly benign trade-off, right? After all, these drugs help lower your cholesterol.

Well, not so fast. Statin drugs are far more dangerous than Big Pharma wants you to know. In fact, even those "benign" aches and pains could be much more serious than you think.

Q: Is it more healthful to exercise before you eat or after?

The difference between perception and reality can be significant. Take, for example, the diets that so many Americans subject themselves to. Everyone thinks they're doing the right thing by reaching for the products that are "low fat" or "no fat."

But as I've told you for years, in spite of the jihad being waged against it, fat is good for you.

Q: At my last physical, I had a borderline high LDL cholesterol reading. My doctor wants to put me on a statin drug but I really don't want to go down that path. Are there any alternatives?

Almost five years ago, Edgar R. Miller III PhD, an associate professor from Johns Hopkins University, dropped a bombshell on the nutritional world. He published an article warning us not to take large doses of vitamin E because it could increase our risk of dying.

Miller's conclusions made a big splash in the mainstream news media. Everywhere you turned, you heard about the so-called dangers of vitamin E...

Dear Pharmacist,

I attended an American Idol concert and I got so excited to see my favorite, Adam Lambert, that I developed cardiac arrhythmias.  I went to the ER, the doctor called it “A-fib” and I was sent home with medications.  What do you suggest so that this scary thing doesn’t happen again?

--J.S. Ocala, Florida

The latest brick in the tomb of statins — those cholesterol-regulating meds — comes from a new study confirming that the drugs cause structural damage to muscles. Even worse, the study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that muscle damage can continue to progress even after patients stop taking the drugs.

One of the biggest areas of dietary confusion today is whether saturated fat is bad for us or not.  For the most part, conventional medical thought remains firmly in the “saturated fat is bad for you” corner, while a growing number of people feel that not only is the jury still out on saturated fat intake, it may even have health benefits.

Blood pressure often rises with aging. Contrary to what many doctors think, salt, obesity and alcohol have little to do with this rise.