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When Life Is Too Sweet

May 14, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

  The First Drink What is your first drink of the morning? Water? Tea? Coffee? Booze? Energy drinks? Each gives very different messages to the body – with results that may last a lifetime. In the case of sugared soft drinks and milks – perhaps some artificially flavored ones – the link with diabetes and […]

Weight – Why Simple Answers Can’t Work (and what might) (7/12/12)

July 12, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Simple – Or Useless? Everything is connected.  Change one thing and you end up changing all.  Highly complex it may be, but give the human body the right information, and it remakes itself right. However, you have to face the preference – especially in the media – for simple “clear” answers to complex issues. Simple, […]

Is sugar poison? (5/5/11)

May 5, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Villain or Hero? We like our villains simple and singular, whether in politics or food.  Our brains crave order, but seeing issues as part of larger systems is too complicated,  too effortful and time consuming to seem worth it.  Besides, it makes for lousy copy. Better to choose a villain. Recently, patients have been coming […]

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