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Get Smart – Go Dirty

July 26, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

  To prevent cancer, change early childhood education.   Not the book-kind, but  the biologically intelligent kind. If you do, you might change the incident of type I diabetes, asthma, peanut allergies, and MS. That’s the conclusion drawn by Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research in London, and now many other researchers.  Decades of varied studies demonstrate that the immune system […]

Fat Future

March 8, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Will today’s millenials become the fattest generation in American history?  If what is happening to British youngsters is a guide, future American adults may suffer from unprecedented levels of cancer and diabetes. Cancer Research UK recently released a study showing Britons born between 1980 and 1995 will by middle age be  70% overweight or obese. And that’s […]

The Costs of Sitting

August 13, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

How much does sitting cost mankind’s health? According to several new papers in the Lancet, at least $67 billion a year. About $54 billion of that represents direct medical costs. And that does not include the costs of early death. Can one million people really be wrong? The results, pooling 16 studies of those  million […]

The Sweet Part of Sleep

July 30, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

How much sleep do you need?  There are over seven billion propers answers to that question.  Some people function beautifully on three.  Quite a few, particularly ill folk, need eight or nine hours or more.  To rebuild the body takes time.  It takes different amount of sleeping rest  for different people. But when the American […]

The Coming Boom in Mental Health

September 20, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

​    What Kind of Future? What are the future needs of mental health in this country?  Many mental health workers worry daily about their jobs.   Will they be replaced by smart cognitive behavioral programs delivered over the net? Will insurance companies pay for what’s coming? Below are a series of factors that will potentially produce a booming […]

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