Monday, March 19, 2012

The 2012 red meat-mortality study (Arch Intern Med): The data suggests that red meat is protective

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I am not a big fan of using arguments such as “food questionnaires are unreliable” and “observational studies are worthless” to completely d...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: A more customized approach based on strength training and calorie intake variation

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In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outlines one approach to mak...
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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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