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…
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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…
Could the low testosterone problem be a mirage?
Low testosterone (a.k.a. “low T”) is caused by worn out glands no longer able to secrete enough T, right? At least this see…
The War of the End of the World: The health puzzle posed by its survivors
The War of Canudos took place in Brazil in 1896 and 1897. Canudos was a settlement of several thousand deeply religious Chr…
How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think
I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting thei…
The 2012 Atherosclerosis egg study: More smoking is associated with more plaque, unless you eat more eggs
I blogged before about the study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosi…
Does tallness cause heart disease? No, but sex does
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