Sunday, November 28, 2010

HealthCorrelator for Excel 1.0 (HCE): Call for beta testers

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This call is closed. Beta testing has been successfully completed. HealthCorrelator for Excel (HCE) is now publicly available for download ...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Human traits are distributed along bell curves: You need to know yourself, and HCE can help

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Most human traits (e.g., body fat percentage, blood pressure, propensity toward depression) are influenced by our genes; some more than othe...
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Your mind as an anabolic steroid

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The figure below, taken from Wilmore et al. (2007), is based on a classic 1972 study conducted by Ariel and Saville . The study demonstrated...
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Monday, November 8, 2010

High-heat cooking will AGE you, if you eat food deep-fried with industrial vegetable oils

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As I said before on this blog, I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut problems. I am refe...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Slow-cooked meat: Round steak, not grilled, but slow-cooked in a frying pan

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I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut problems. I am referring here to high heat cooking...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Blood glucose levels in birds are high yet HbA1c levels are low: Can vitamin C have anything to do with this?

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Blood glucose levels in birds are often 2-4 times higher than those in mammals of comparable size. Yet birds often live 3 times longer than ...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Income, obesity, and heart disease in US states

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The figure below combines data on median income by state (bottom-left and top-right), as well as a plot of heart disease death rates against...
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