You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little
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Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the …
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…
How to handle a dog attack
For most people, dog attacks are not very common. But they happen occasionally, and the experience can be traumatic. Incid…
Waist-to-weight ratios in pictures: The John Stone transformation
John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and sta…
Could we have evolved traits that are detrimental to our survival?
Let us assume that we collected data on the presence or absence of a trait (e.g., propensity toward risky behavior) in a po…
We share an ancestor who probably lived no more than 640 years ago
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Could grain-fed beef liver be particularly nutritious?
There is a pervasive belief today that grain-fed beef is unhealthy, a belief that I addressed before in this blog ( ) and …
How can carrying some extra body fat be healthy?
Most of the empirical investigations into the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality suggest that the low…
An illustration of the waist-to-weight ratio theory: The fit2fat2fit experiment
In my previous blog post, I argued that one’s optimal weight may be the one that minimizes one’s waist-to-weight ratio. I …
What is your optimal weight? Maybe it is the one that minimizes your waist-to-weight ratio
There is a significant amount of empirical evidence suggesting that, for a given individual and under normal circumstances…
Dr. Jekyll dieted and became Mr. Hyde
One of the most fascinating topics for an independent health researcher is the dichotomy between short- and long-term resp…
Trip to South Korea: Hidden reasons for the leanness of its people
In September last year (2012) I went to South Korea to speak about nonlinear data analysis with WarpPLS ( ), initially for …
Cabeza de Vaca: Supernaturalism and psychosomatic disorders
Andrew Weil, a major proponent of the idea of self-healing ( ), has repeatedly acknowledged the influence of osteopaths suc…
