January 2019 - Elite Care Family Medicine

Image by Dana Tentis Although doctors still aren’t completely sure of all the reasons antidepressants work to relieve depression, one fact is for certain--treating depression with antidepressants is a journey you should be on with your physician from beginning to end, especially in the end. In a previous blog, we discussed why your primary care provider should be your first stop in treating depression, but we didn’t share why your provider should also be your first...

What’s killed more people than HIV, is more hazardous than parachuting, and more dangerous to your health than smoking? According to one well-respected Mayo Clinic expert, you could be doing it right now. We’re talking about sitting. Dr. James Levine, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic coined the phrase “sitting is the new smoking” due to the numerous health issues, including potentially deadly problems like cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes,...

What do cigarettes, cabbage, and tapeworm have in common? They join with the likes of cookies, grapefruit, and sedatives to bring some of the most ridiculous fad diets the world has ever offered. Unfortunately, many of them started right here in the United States. The very first fad diet to become widespread was made popular by Lord Byron, one of the leading figures of the Romantic period, who was famous for his poetry, flamboyance, and, oddly enough, his diets. In...