Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: If I can do it, anyone can
The idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time seems impossible because of three widely held misconceptions: (a)…
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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…
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 II: Wheat’s total effect on mortality is significant, complex, and highlights the negative effects of low animal fat diets
The graph below shows the results of a multivariate nonlinear WarpPLS ( ) analysis including the variables listed below. Eac…
Ground meat treats: Beef and bison meatza
At the time of this writing, there was no Wikipedia article for the term “meatza”, which surprised me a bit given the number…
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