文档介绍：March 2004 The McDougall Newsletter e 1
Volume 3 Issue 3
A Natural Cure for Depression
Potatoes for Breakfast, Then a Vigorous Very Early Morning Walk in the
In This Issue Sunshine
• A Natural Cure for Aldous Huxley in his (1932) novel, Brave New World, and e Orwell in his (1949)
Depression (page 1) classic book, 1984, predicted a future population of people “high” on mood-enhancing
• Recent McDougall drugs. The future is now. More than $8 billion annually in the USA, and $12 billion
Media Appearances worldwide, are spent by millions of people trying to improve their unhappy lives with
(page 8) antidepressant medications. In my personal experience I have seen in some of my
clinical settings as many as 40% of my middle-aged female patients on these drugs.
• Favorite 5—My favorite
5 articles found from
my medical journals Many of us, older than forty, remember a time when our friends and relatives were not
from this past month under the influence of doctor-prescribed, mind-altering drugs. So what was different
(page 10) then? Some will argue that life is more difficult now than in the past – I doubt that.
The Great Depression spanning the 1930s and World War II in Western Europe are
• Featured Recipes two recent examples of times of suffering far greater than most of us have ever experi-
(page 13) enced. In fact, I cannot think of a time in history when life has been easier and more
fulfilling than now for people living in modern countries.
There are tangible reasons for this epidemic of antidepressant-pill-prescribing that are
as familiar to you as fortable bed, your easy chair, and your neighborhood
fast-food restaurant. People now suffer, physically and mentally, from the worst health
ever known to our species – due to our diet and lifestyles. And because of improved
sanitation, immunizations, and antibiotics, that have virtually eliminated the threat of
death from infectious disease