Sunday, January 17, 2021

Has COVID led to an increase in all-cause mortality? A look at US data from 2015 to 2020

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Has COVID led to an increase in all-cause mortality? The figure below shows mortality data in the US for the 2015-2020 period. At the top...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Do COVID cases spike in cold weather? A look at effective reproduction rates from October to December 2020

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Do COVID cases spike in cold weather? In a previous post ( ) I argued that COVID cases may in fact go down in cold weather, due to compen...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Does protein leach calcium from the bones? Yes, but only if it is plant protein

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The idea that protein leaches calcium from the bones has been around for a while. It is related to the notion that protein, especially from...
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Sunday, September 6, 2020

Do COVID cases spike in cold weather?

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Do COVID cases spike in cold weather? To answer this question, it may be instructive to look at COVID figures for Brazil and the US, becau...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

How can carrying some extra body fat be healthy?

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Most of the empirical investigations into the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality suggest that the lowest-mortality BM...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Eating fish whole: Sardines

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Different parts of a fish have different types of nutrients that are important for our health; this includes bones and organs. Therefore it ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Ketones and Ketosis: Physiological and pathological forms

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Ketones are compounds that have a specific chemical structure. The figure below (from: Wikipedia) shows the chemical structure of various ty...
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