“As I approach my one hundred and tenth (give or take a few decades) birthday, I think it about time I give some thought to my diet. It’s not that I’m unhappy with my present regimen: half a dozen glazed donuts for breakfast, a bacon sandwich on peanut buttered toast for lunch, and mashed potatoes and pot roast for dinner, washed down with Jack Daniels, followed by coconut cream pie for dessert -– it’s just that perhaps a healthier diet might prevent me from being snatched away in the bloom of my antiquity. Thoughtful friends have told me I should be taking some sort of herb, or something -– saw palmetto -– for my prostate. Well, I sure want to keep my prostate healthy and happy, so I started taking it. I didn’t expect any dramatic changes in my life, and there weren’t any. Maybe that’s because a recent study that I stumbled across on the Internet found that there’s no benefit in taking the stuff. Out of curiosity, I checked a little further, and easily found lots of Internet sites claiming great benefit from taking it. So since I’ve already got a half-full bottle, and it doesn’t seem to bother me, I’ll keep it up.” (05/30/06)