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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 […]

Stress, Overeating, and Sleep

February 8, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Stress makes you sleepless.  Insomnia makes you hungry, especially ravenous for fat and sugar. You eat more, gain weight, get more stressed. Then repeat. When expectations exceed realities stress becomes one’s constant companion.  The plane flight to see your ailing mother is delayed, then cancelled.  Your kid forgets his homework and you can’t leave work […]

Does Sleeping Less Make Me Hungry?

November 12, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

There are lots of sleepless people out there right now.  Many of us do not sleep the entire night.  Innumerable reasons wake us up  – everything from election  nights, World Series games,  working shifts and tweets from long forgotten lovers, to tobacco (smokers perpetually wake up in nicotine withdrawal) to drinking an alcohol nightcap, depression and […]

The Top Three Percent? How We’re Not Getting Healthy

April 2, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Are Americans Healthy? We hear that Americans are doing better – at least in terms of health.  Childhood obesity is not increasing.  Adults and children are living longer. But what about the future? A recent study out of Mayo Clinic Proceedings is more disturbing.  It looked at ten year old data (it takes a while to research […]

Sleep Loss and the Munchies

March 5, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

An Anatomy of Hunger Unlike marijuana, sleep loss has been entirely legal in all states since the very beginnings of the Constitution.  Like marijuana, sleep loss produces a lot of effects you don’t want, ranging from more frequent colds to more common weight gain.  But could the actions of brain cannabinoids be common to the effects […]

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