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The 2012 Arch Intern Med red meat-mortality study: The “protective” effect of smoking

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

In the comments section of my previous post on cancer rates in the US states ( ) my friend Aaron Blaisdell noted that: …comparing states t...

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

The table below is from a study by Hayat and colleagues ( ). It illustrates one common trend regarding cancer – it increases dramatically i...

Adopting an evolutionarily sound lifestyle may reduce the probability that one will develop cancer, but there will be those who will never...

Humans, like many animals, evolved to be episodic eaters and spend most of their time fasting. Body fat is the main store of energy in the h...

In this previous post I analyzed some data from the China Study that included counties where there were cases of schistosomiasis infection....

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 ...

If you pick up a magnet and move it up and down with your hand, you will be creating electromagnetic radiation. The faster you move the ma...

The idea that pork consumption may cause cirrhosis has been around for a while. A fairly widely cited 1985 study by Nanji and French ( ) pro...

George Hamilton admits that he has been addicted to sunbathing for much of his life. The photo below (from: phoenix.fanster.com), shows him ...

Some types of cancer have traditionally been higher among the Inuit than in other populations, at least according to data from the 1950s, wh...

It is not very hard to find studies supporting one diet or another. Gardner and colleagues, for example, conducted a study in which the Atki...

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...