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

This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with posts that attract man...

Several bacteria feed on lactose, the sugar found in milk, producing cheese for us as a byproduct of their feeding. This is why traditionall...

The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a design that favors...

In a previous post ( ) I used WarpPLS ( ) to analyze the model below, using data reported in a recent study looking at the relationship betw...

Notes: - This post is a joke, a weird parody of academic research, which is why it is labeled “humor” and is being filed under “Abstract hum...

Loss of muscle mass is associated with aging. It is also associated with the metabolic syndrome, together with excessive body fat gain. It i...

Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procur...

One of the biggest problems with modern diets rich in industrial foods is that they promote unnatural hunger patterns. For example, hunger c...

Ancel Keys is often heavily criticized for allegedly originating the fat phobia that we see today in the US and other countries, perhaps wit...

Adiponectin is a hormone exclusively secreted by body fat. This hormone has been recently gaining attention from researchers because of some...

Every year I travel to Europe on business, normally once or twice a year. These trips usually involve meetings with engineers, researchers, ...

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...

Last year I traveled to South Korea to give presentations on nonlinear structural equation modeling and WarpPLS ( ). These are an advanced...

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...

In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outlines one approach to mak...