When it comes to losing fat and maintaining muscle, at the same time, there are no shortcuts. The process generally has to be slow to be hea...

The two photos below (click to enlarge) were taken 4 years apart. The one on the left was taken in 2006, when I weighed 210 lbs (95 kg). Sin...

Growth hormone, also known as human growth hormone, seems to be implicated in a number of metabolic conditions associated with aging, and, m...

Body fat is not an inert deposit of energy. It can be seen as a distributed endocrine organ. Body fat cells, or adipocytes, secrete a number...

Sun exposure leads to the production in the human body of a number of compounds that are believed to be health-promoting. One of these is k...

In the comments section of Denise Minger’s post on July 16, 2010 , which discusses some of the data from the China Study (as a follow up to ...

The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase ...