Monday, April 22, 2013

Cabeza de Vaca: Supernaturalism and psychosomatic disorders

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Andrew Weil, a major proponent of the idea of self-healing ( ), has repeatedly acknowledged the influence of osteopaths such as Robert C. ...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Dried meat: Homemade beef jerky

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You can dry many types of meat, including beef, pork, goat, deer, and even some types of seafood, such as mussels. Drying meat tends to s...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Drs. Francisco Cervantes and Marivic Torregosa, and the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium

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Last year I traveled to South Korea to give presentations on nonlinear structural equation modeling and WarpPLS ( ). These are an advance...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless

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A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The study was published in...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

The War of the End of the World: The health puzzle posed by its survivors

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The War of Canudos took place in Brazil in 1896 and 1897. Canudos was a settlement of several thousand deeply religious Christians, led by...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

The 2012 Atherosclerosis egg study: More smoking is associated with more plaque, unless you eat more eggs

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I blogged before about the study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ). This stud...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Does tallness cause heart disease? No, but sex does

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Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, among other names...
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