A viral cure for cancer only a few years away?
Adopting an evolutionarily sound lifestyle may reduce the probability that one will develop cancer, but there will be thos…
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Will your wireless router give you cancer?
If you pick up a magnet and move it up and down with your hand, you will be creating electromagnetic radiation. The faster…
Sensible sun exposure
Sun exposure leads to the production in the human body of a number of compounds that are believed to be health-promoting. O…
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: The “protective” effect of smoking
In a previous post ( ) I used WarpPLS ( ) to analyze the model below, using data reported in a recent study looking at the r…
Does pork consumption cause cirrhosis? Perhaps, if people become obese from eating pork
The idea that pork consumption may cause cirrhosis has been around for a while. A fairly widely cited 1985 study by Nanji an…
All diets succeed at first, and eventually fail
It is not very hard to find studies supporting one diet or another. Gardner and colleagues, for example, conducted a study i…
The China Study one more time: Are raw plant foods giving people cancer?
In this previous post I analyzed some data from the China Study that included counties where there were cases of schistosom…
The China Study again: A multivariate analysis suggesting that schistosomiasis rules!
In the comments section of Denise Minger’s post on July 16, 2010 , which discusses some of the data from the China Study (as…
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