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…
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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 …
Drs. Francisco Cervantes and Marivic Torregosa, and the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium
Last year I traveled to South Korea to give presentations on nonlinear structural equation modeling and WarpPLS ( ). These…
The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless
A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The study w…
The man who ate 25 eggs per day: What does this case really tell us?
Many readers of this blog have probably heard about the case of the man who ate approximately 25 eggs (20 to 30) per day for…
The steep obesity increase in the USA in the 1980s: In a sense, it reflects a major success story
Obesity rates have increased in the USA over the years, but the steep increase starting around the 1980s is unusual. Wang an…
The “pork paradox”? National pork consumption and obesity
In my previous post ( ) I discussed some country data linking pork consumption and health, analyzed with WarpPLS ( ). One of…
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…
Kleiber's law and its possible implications for obesity
Kleiber's law ( ) is one of those “laws” of nature that is both derived from, and seems to fit quite well with, empirica…
Men who are skinny-fat: There are quite a few of them
The graph below (from Wikipedia) plots body fat percentage (BF) against body mass index (BMI) for men. The data is a bit old…
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