No More Mr. Fat Guy!

Some would say the treatment is worse than the disease, but a new report suggests taking cod liver oil can prevent depression.

A carton of Marlboro Light 100s, a case of Pepsi, or at this point Mountain Dew, a bottle of No-Doz, and about three of those 1 pound Hershey Bars. And I want Christmas to be tonight.

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This post has absolutely nothing to do with weight loss, so many of you may want to skip it.

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If you have Seasonal Affective Disorder, thanks to Congress, you can now enjoy another month of it every year.

Daylight saving time begins three weeks earlier this year and lasts one week longer — welcome news for people who relish the extra afternoon light to garden, ride a bicycle, walk the dog or just take out the trash when they can still see the curb.

But the extension, which begins Sunday, could actually make millions of Americans feel less sunny. For those people — suffering from seasonal affective disorder or its milder cousin, winter blues — the corresponding reduction in morning light may worsen or lengthen their depression, doctors and mood experts say. “We’re very worried about it,” says Michael Terman, director of New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Center for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms. “It’s the early morning light exposure that allays the symptoms of winter depression. The later the sun rises, the more likely we are to get depressed.”

Bipolar? Huh? Greg, I thought you said you liked girls?!

Nah, not all of me swings both ways. Just my brain. I don’t know if I really am bipolar, but I do know that I get very depressed, and I’ve been that way lately. I just go through phases where I can’t seem to care about anything. Everything is bleak and hopeless and any effort toward anything seems pointless and futile. I wind up neglecting things, letting things go, saying why bother? to everything. And that’s where I’ve been lately.

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