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Should We Stand?

March 1, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Is it better to work standing? To stand while you eat?  Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, chair of preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic – Rochester, has published a study of studies showing standing at a desk while working “burns” an extra .15 calorie per minute.  Is that enough to be worthwhile? It’s time to examine some of the evidence about […]

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 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 […]

The Boob in the Boob Tube

August 9, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Watch What You Watch Does watching television lead to cognitive decline (i.e., make you stupid?)  Can watching television lead to Alzheimer’s?  Now that the term boob tube is marching on near its 50th anniversary, informed citizens want to know.  Some of them, anyway – and the answer comes before the commercial break. What Leads to […]

Sitting Smoking Sleeping (6/18/13)

June 19, 2013 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Going to Extremes Human beings love to test limits.  For many it’s fun to drive a car.  And if driving is fun, it’s also fun to simultaneously talk on the phone, eat a granola bar, read our emails, dictate a letter and watch TV. Except when we run someone over. Or slam into rear of […]

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