Sunday, October 24, 2021

You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little

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The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a design that favor...
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Sunday, September 19, 2021

Dietary protein does not become body fat if you are on a low carbohydrate diet

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By definition LC is about dietary carbohydrate restriction. If you are reducing carbohydrates, your proportional intake of protein or fat, o...
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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...