Dear Pharmacist, My husband and I are tea lovers and we were so glad to find out about matcha green tea from your article last year. Are you aware of other healthy tea drinks such as this? --P.M. Tulsa, Oklahoma Answer: Yes, as a matter of fact. When I...

I don't know if I should even be discussing this matter. It might prompt an onslaught of investigations by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the CDC and any number of other government organizations. In the interest of national insecurity, I...

Dear Pharmacist, I read you in my local newspaper and find your columns very interesting and refreshing in a sea of misinformation about drugs and supplements. I know you are a pharmacist, but sometimes I think you’re anti-medicine. Suzy is that true?...

Its 2 am and you are still awake or you have worken up for the third time or even worse you have woken up because it feels like someone cranked the furnace all the way up. Your sleep will change as you are going through menopause, that is a fact. But...

When Leigh Met Harry… Do you believe in coincidences? Do you believe that everything happens for a reason? I do – to an extent. A better term for me is synchronicity. Coincidence is actually defined as when two parts meet in perfect...

In 1937, Ruth Hamilton traveled to Europe to visit family in Denmark and to embark on a fact-finding mission for her radio program in the States. Her trip started out memorably when she came face-to-face with the son of a famous painter, and she even...

What Happens When you Take the 'Social' out of Social Networking? What happens when the 'Social' gets left out of Social Networking?Well, the answer is P.O.'d people. This I know from experience as both the receiver and being flamed when I did it...

OK take one 18 year old and ask yourself how much damage could he do in one evening. Let me count them......... 1 Tear up the rear end in my van 2 Break the screen door on our front door. 3 Rip off the whole water spigot from our back...

After missing the 3.00 pm ferry from Harlingen to Terschelling by only a few minutes, I ensconced myself in a chair in the restaurant overlooking the quay. It was almost the last day of the year. I watched the ferry I should have been on...

I love to laugh. It's better than medicine, better than walking in the mall, and much better than booze 'cause I can do it yet stay in control. Every morning, the first thing I do is pour a cup of coffee and open the comics pages of the...

Since mid December we are in a real winter with lots of snow, which doesn’t happen every year...

Thursday started out like any normal day,up at 5:30 coffee, breakfast,morning news,feeding the...

You’ve heard of paying it forward? It’s the concept that if someone does something nice for you, you do something nice for someone else. Then that person will do something nice for another person, and so on, and so on. Instead of paying the...

The last summerlike day it was, when we walked behind the hearse to the graveyard to burry my...

I love my animals. I have two dogs, Faegan and Junior, and two cats, Travers and Laila. No children at this point (human children, I mean) so the furry friends get most of the attention in my house. My dogs *know how to manipulate my love. When I...

The on-slaught of drug commercials, media frenzies and the like, promoting the state of ill...

You know how a smell can trigger a memory? For me … Earl Grey tea is one of the most powerful smells around. Not because of the delicate herbs and spices -- but because Earl Grey smells like summer afternoons with my grandmother. Grandma Kathy was...

It's the regular suspects at the Thursday Tasting Group, and we're tasting Merlots. We know the rap...Merlot has become a bad word in the wine business. A novice entry level wine. Over-produced. Wimpy. Red Wine for girls. The Apple-tini of the Napa...

Every year I used to take a trip to New Jersey from Florida to visit friends. The last time I...

Throughout 99% of human history, the average life expectancy was less than 18 years. That’s changing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are now 80,000 centenarians in the United States, and that number is projected to increase seven-fold, to...

We're told that as we age, to expect short term memory problems. Well ok, up to a point, but...

The other day, I was videotaping in Seminole County (Florida) when I stumbled upon this sign at a secluded spot near Lake Monroe. I climbed the old steps and looked around. Then, I realized I was standing on the graves of long dead Seminole Indians. I...

The most fun part of Christmas day is when you take one last, appreciative look at the pile of...

Psalm 55:22 "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." This was written by a of Metro Denver Hospice Physician: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter...

The foods arthritis patients eat can play a key role in the management and reduction of pain....

No one's happier about America's weight problem than the $50-billion-a-year diet industry. That's why I've decided to write a diet book. I've done a little research and it should be pretty easy. After all, it doesn't have to work. 95% of all diets...

In 1937, Ruth Hamilton traveled to Europe to visit family in Denmark and to embark on a fact-finding mission for her radio program in the States. Decades later, she wrote about her life-changing trip in her autobiography, "The Hamilton Saga."...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....

Fifteen months ago, Joanne (my wife) and I combined a short business trip with a mini-vacation...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation...

Warning Signs of Cheating Partners These are the most common signs of a partner who has detached from you because they are attached to someone else. Check off any of these traits you have seen in your relationship over the last 6 – 12 months. Be...