Sunday, August 15, 2021

The China Study one more time: Are raw plant foods giving people cancer?

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In this previous post I analyzed some data from the China Study that included counties where there were cases of schistosomiasis infection....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Blood glucose control before age 55 may increase your chances of living beyond 90

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This post refers to an interesting study by Yashin and colleagues (2009) at Duke University’s Center for Population Health and Aging. (The f...
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Thursday, March 11, 2021

The steep obesity increase in the USA in the 1980s: In a sense, it reflects a major success story

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Obesity rates have increased in the USA over the years, but the steep increase starting around the 1980s is unusual. Wang and Beydoun do a g...
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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...