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Depression Is a Systemic Illness – Let’s Treat It That Way

February 8, 2024 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Too Many Are Depressed Depression is one version of hell on earth, and Americans have a lot of it. A recent international study run by Evelyn Bromet of 18 countries found America near the top, with 19.2 percent of the population having experienced depression — only France, at 21 percent, ranked higher. With our tottering health […]

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 […]

Time to Go With the Dogs

December 7, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Dogs Can Help You Live – and Live Longer Can living with a dog improve your life?  It certainly appears canine companionship might extend it. The results come from a Swedish study at Uppsala University which used the longstanding public health advantages of that country.  All the Swedish population between the ages of 40-80 were surveyed.  Out of those […]

How to Kill People Twice (Walking in America)

January 19, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

How does America protect public health?  A clear example can be seen in national pedestrian deaths, up twenty percent from 2009 to 2014.  Presently five thousand walkers  a year are mowed down by motor vehicles, with tens of thousands seriously injured, and hundreds of thousands maimed. In a recent study by Smart Growth America, a […]

Does Health Insurance Insure You?

February 14, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Why is using American health insurance such a farce?  We can begin with the preposterous process of personally procuring it. As the end of 2015 appeared, I received missives in the mail from Assurant Health, my health insurer, that I would be delisted at the end of the year.  I had used them for only over […]

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