PLS Applications Symposium; 11 - 13 April 2018; Laredo, Texas
PLS Applications Symposium; 11 - 13 April 2018; Laredo, Texas (Abstract submissions accepted until 15 February 2018) *** Hea…
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Hands-On Workshop on PLS-SEM with WarpPLS; 12-13 August 2017; Penang, Malaysia
Structural equation modeling (SEM), or path analysis with latent variables, is one of the most general and comprehensive sta…
PLS Applications Symposium; 5 - 7 April 2017; Laredo, Texas
PLS Applications Symposium; 5 - 7 April 2017; Laredo, Texas (Abstract submissions accepted until 10 February 2017) *** Healt…
Do prominent health gurus live longer?
Many years ago, when I started blogging about health issues, I noticed a couple of interesting patterns. The first pattern …
PLS Applications Symposium; 13 - 15 April 2016; Laredo, Texas
PLS Applications Symposium; 13 - 15 April 2016; Laredo, Texas (Abstract submissions accepted until 19 February 2015) *** Hea…
Why red meat consumption may appear unhealthy in scientific studies
There have been many academic articles in the past linking red meat intake with increased mortality, and there will be more…
Latitude and cancer rates in US states: Aaron Blaisdell’s intuition confirmed
In the comments section of my previous post on cancer rates in the US states ( ) my friend Aaron Blaisdell noted that: …co…
Aging and cancer: The importance of taking a hard look at the numbers
The table below is from a study by Hayat and colleagues ( ). It illustrates one common trend regarding cancer – it increase…
The 2012 Arch Intern Med red meat-mortality study: Eating 234 g/d of red meat could reduce mortality by 23 percent
As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored relationships hinted at by Denise Minger’s pr…
The 2012 red meat-mortality study (Arch Intern Med): The data suggests that red meat is protective
I am not a big fan of using arguments such as “food questionnaires are unreliable” and “observational studies are worthless”…
The China Study II: Wheat’s total effect on mortality is significant, complex, and highlights the negative effects of low animal fat diets
The graph below shows the results of a multivariate nonlinear WarpPLS ( ) analysis including the variables listed below. Eac…
Finding your sweet spot for muscle gain with HCE
In order to achieve muscle gain, one has to repeatedly hit the “supercompensation” window, which is a fleeting period of tim…
The China Study II: How gender takes us to the elusive and deadly factor X
The graph below shows the mortality in the 35-69 and 70-79 age ranges for men and women for the China Study II dataset. I di…
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