One of my many websites is: LifeWithoutLipitor.com. I have that website because much of my research has led to the conclusion that we are over-prescribed statins. 

In a recent article, cardiologist, Dr. Eric Topol's briefly and to the point explains:

Evidence-based medicine is a fancy buzz term. You've got people who draw out guidelines from shaky data and tell the world this is the way it's got to be. A great example is statins. The medicine community promotes them like crazy. But for people without previous heart disease only one in a 100 people will benefit in terms of preventing heart disease. And then you have the FDA issuing a warning that taking statins can increase the risk of diabetes, which is at least 1 in 200 for the more potent statins. For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes. What kind of trade off is that? We've got to get more intelligent about the individual's true benefit to risk story.

Source: Destroying Medicine to Rebuild It

Here's another good site that explains ... The NNT. NNT stands for Number Needed to Treat.

Interesting video ... We both have similar health goals ... No meds! I'm 56 and he's 58. A recent New York Times article stated: The average adult over age 55 juggles six to eight medications daily.

The good news: It's not that difficult to regain good health.                                                              

Very interesting video about health and exercise.

If your health is important to you, you will want to listen to Dr. Fuhrman's radio interviews. He addresses many health issues that confront Americans.

Healthy Bones for Life - Dr. John Abramson - Author Overdosed America (after listening to this interview, I'm more convinced than ever to avoid meds) - After listening to this interview, I recommend listening to this NPR report about Osteopenia (How a Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription).

Preventing Sarcopenia: the Major Cause of Age-Related Disabilities (after listening to this interview, I'm more convinced than ever to continue strength straining)

Don’t Control Your Diabetes – Get Rid of It!

Eat to Live the Basics

Nobody Should Die of Heart Disease

How to Get Off Blood Pressure Medicine

Healthy to 100

A truly fascinating article.

This is just one snippet: Twenty years from now, the maturation of the baby boom generation will be at flood tide. We will have gone from 40 million Americans over the age of 65 in 2009 to 70 million in 2030. This will put enormous pressure on the health care system, regardless of whether Obama's reform efforts, or even Paul Ryan's, prove successful. The chronic diseases of the elderly will be the front line. Because we cannot cure those diseases at present, nor reasonably hope for cures over the next few decades, the best we will be able to do in many cases, especially those of the elderly and frail, is extend people's lives for a relatively short period of time — at considerable expense and often while causing serious suffering to the person in question.

I'm always skeptical of statistics, however, this should give a "ballpark" idea about health/disease risk factors. 

In fact, your major risk factor for death from a preventable disease is not the quality of your health care (about 10 percent of your risk), your social circumstances (about 15 percent) or even your genetic makeup (about 30 percent). Your single biggest risk is your own behavior (40 percent).

Source: Healthy Aging: A Cheat Sheet

That's a mouthful, however, at Kirk Hamilton's website: Prescription 2000, you will find a rich array of interviews with many experts. 

Here are some that I have found very interesting:

1. Got Kids? Listen to the interview with Robyn O'Brien. Robyn is your advocate.
2. Got balls? Listen to this informative interview about prostrate cancer? This is a must-listen for all men.
3. Live in America? Listen to Jean Buzby. She is with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. A whole lot of interesting information that you will not hear anywhere else.

Here's a tip: If you have a smartphone, plug in the headphones and listen at your leisure -- in the car, at the airport or any other convenient time. Enjoy.