Sunday, April 11, 2021

Want to make coffee less acidic? Add cream to it

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The table below is from a 2008 article by Ehlen and colleagues ( ), showing the amount of erosion caused by various types of beverages, when...
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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, February 21, 2021

The China Study II: Wheat flour, rice, and cardiovascular disease

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In my  last post  on the China Study II, I analyzed the effect of total and HDL cholesterol on mortality from all cardiovascular diseases. T...
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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...
Friday, November 13, 2020

The China Study again: A multivariate analysis suggesting that schistosomiasis rules!

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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 ...
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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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