You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, palatability, paleo diet, satiety This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with posts that attract man... Read More
You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, palatability, paleo diet, satiety The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a design that favors... Read More
No fat gain while eating well during the Holiday Season: Palatability isolines, the 14-percent advantage, and nature’s special spice body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, paleo diet Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procur... Read More
The steep obesity increase in the USA in the 1980s: In a sense, it reflects a major success story body fat, calorie restriction, energy expenditure, obesity, statistics 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... Read More
The China Study II: Does calorie restriction increase longevity? calorie restriction, China Study, longevity, multivariate analysis, obesity, research, statistics, warppls The idea that calorie restriction extends human life comes largely from studies of other species. The most relevant of those studies have be... Read More
The War of the End of the World: The health puzzle posed by its survivors Brazilian sertão, calorie restriction, cangaceiros, immunocompetence, infectious diseases, jagunço, longevity, sertanejo, stress, The War of the End of the World, viral diabetes, War of Canudos The War of Canudos took place in Brazil in 1896 and 1897. Canudos was a settlement of several thousand deeply religious Christians, led by ... Read More
The lowest-mortality BMI: What is the role of nutrient intake from food? BMI, body fat, calorie restriction, longevity, mortality, multivariate analysis, muscle gain, muscle loss In a previous post ( ), I discussed the frequently reported lowest-mortality body mass index (BMI), which is about 26. The empirical results... Read More
Maybe you should stop trying to be someone you are not anorexia, body fat, calorie restriction, muscle gain, muscle loss, osteoporosis 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 ... Read More
Does strength exercise increase nitrogen balance? calorie restriction, endurance exercise, muscle gain, muscle loss, nitrogen balance, protein, research This previous post looks at the amounts of protein needed to maintain a nitrogen balance of zero. It builds on data about individuals doing... Read More