Monday, February 27, 2012

Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: If I can do it, anyone can

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The idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time seems impossible because of three widely held misconceptions: (a) to gain muscle ...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

The “pork paradox”? National pork consumption and obesity

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In my previous post ( ) I discussed some country data linking pork consumption and health, analyzed with WarpPLS ( ). One of the datasets us...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Does pork consumption cause cirrhosis? Perhaps, if people become obese from eating pork

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The idea that pork consumption may cause cirrhosis has been around for a while. A fairly widely cited 1985 study by Nanji and French ( ) pro...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Kleiber's law and its possible implications for obesity

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Kleiber's law ( ) is one of those “laws” of nature that is both derived from, and seems to fit quite well with, empirical data. It appli...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

All diets succeed at first, and eventually fail

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It is not very hard to find studies supporting one diet or another. Gardner and colleagues, for example, conducted a study in which the Atki...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

The China Study II: Wheat’s total effect on mortality is significant, complex, and highlights the negative effects of low animal fat diets

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The graph below shows the results of a multivariate nonlinear WarpPLS ( ) analysis including the variables listed below. Each row in the dat...
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Monday, January 9, 2012

Ground meat treats: Beef and bison meatza

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At the time of this writing, there was no Wikipedia article for the term “meatza”, which surprised me a bit given the number of recipes on t...
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