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Wheat flour, rice and vascular diseases in the China Study II data: Article on Cliodynamics

My article on volume 6, number 2, of the journal Cliodynamics has recently been published; it is titled “Wheat flour versu…

Jan 26, 2016

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 …

Jan 2, 2016

You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little

The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a de…

Dec 23, 2015

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…

Nov 24, 2015

The Friedewald and Iranian equations: Fasting triglycerides can seriously distort calculated LDL

Standard lipid profiles provide LDL cholesterol measures based on equations that usually have the following as their inputs …

Oct 26, 2015

Should you drink your coffee filtered?

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. Arguably a key reason for this is that coffee has psycho…

Sep 27, 2015

Hypervitaminosis A and sweet potatoes

Can consumption of sweet potatoes cause hypervitaminosis A? The answer is “no”, even if you eat ten or more sweet potatoes …

Aug 23, 2015

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