How much protein does one need to be in nitrogen balance?
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38 g of sardines or 2 fish oil softgels? Let us look at the numbers
The bar chart below shows the fat content of 1 sardine (38 g) canned in tomato sauce, and 2 fish oil softgels of the Nature …
Nuts by numbers: Should you eat them, and how much?
Nuts are generally seen as good sources of protein and magnesium. The latter plays a number of roles in the human body, and …
Maknig to mayn tipos? Myabe ur teh boz
Undoubtedly one of the big differences between life today and in our Paleolithic past is the level of stress that modern hum…
What is a reasonable vitamin D level?
The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the g…
Strength training: A note about Scooby and comments by Anon
Let me start this post with a note about Scooby , who is a massive bodybuilder who has a great website with tips on how to …
Pressure-cooked meat: Top sirloin
Pressure cooking relies on physics to take advantage of the high temperatures of liquids and vapors in a sealed container. T…
How lean should one be?
Loss of muscle mass is associated with aging. It is also associated with the metabolic syndrome, together with excessive bod…
healthscave for Excel 1.0 (HCE): Call for beta testers
This call is closed. Beta testing has been successfully completed. healthscave for Excel (HCE) is now publicly available for…
Human traits are distributed along bell curves: You need to know yourself, and HCE can help
Most human traits (e.g., body fat percentage, blood pressure, propensity toward depression) are influenced by our genes; som…
Your mind as an anabolic steroid
The figure below, taken from Wilmore et al. (2007), is based on a classic 1972 study conducted by Ariel and Saville . The st…
High-heat cooking will AGE you, if you eat food deep-fried with industrial vegetable oils
As I said before on this blog, I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut pro…
Slow-cooked meat: Round steak, not grilled, but slow-cooked in a frying pan
I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut problems. I am referring here to h…
Blood glucose levels in birds are high yet HbA1c levels are low: Can vitamin C have anything to do with this?
Blood glucose levels in birds are often 2-4 times higher than those in mammals of comparable size. Yet birds often live 3 ti…
The China Study II: Does calorie restriction increase longevity?
The idea that calorie restriction extends human life comes largely from studies of other species. The most relevant of those…
Income, obesity, and heart disease in US states
The figure below combines data on median income by state (bottom-left and top-right), as well as a plot of heart disease dea…
Low nonexercise activity thermogenesis: Uncooperative genes or comfy furniture?
The degree of nonexercise activity thermogenesis ( NEAT ) seems to a major factor influencing the amount of fat gained or lo…
Strong causation can exist without any correlation: The strange case of the chain smokers, and a note about diet
Researchers like to study samples of data and look for associations between variables. Often those associations are represen…
The China Study II: Wheat flour, rice, and cardiovascular disease
In my last post on the China Study II, I analyzed the effect of total and HDL cholesterol on mortality from all cardiovasc…
