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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...

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

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

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...

The idea that calorie restriction extends human life comes largely from studies of other species. The most relevant of those studies have be...

The War of Canudos took place in Brazil in 1896 and 1897. Canudos was a settlement of several thousand deeply religious Christians, led by ...

In a previous post ( ), I discussed the frequently reported lowest-mortality body mass index (BMI), which is about 26. The empirical results...

Many people struggle to lose body fat, and never quite make it to their optimal. Fewer people manage to do so successfully, and, as soon as ...

This previous post looks at the amounts of protein needed to maintain a nitrogen balance of zero. It builds on data about individuals doing...