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Postprandial glucose levels, HbA1c, and arterial stiffness: Compared to glucose, lipids are not even on the radar screen

Postprandial glucose levels are the levels of blood glucose after meals. In Western urban environments, the main contributors to elevated po...

Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, among other names...

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

One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ...

I love statistics. But statistics is the science that will tell you that each person in a group of 20 people ate half a chicken per week ove...

I have recently read an interesting study by Yashin and colleagues (2009) at Duke University’s Center for Population Health and Aging. (The ...

Let me start this post with a warning about spirits (hard liquor). Taken on an empty stomach, they cause an acute suppression of liver glyco...

I often refer to foods rich in refined carbohydrates in this blog as among the most disease-promoting agents of modern diets. Yet, when one ...

As noted in this post , it is possible for a food-related trait to evolve to fixation in an entire population in as little as 396 years; not...

As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored relationships hinted at by Denise Minger’s previous and highl...

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

I am not a big fan of using arguments such as “food questionnaires are unreliable” and “observational studies are worthless” to completely d...

Perfect Health Diet is a book that one should own. It is not the type of book that you can get from your local library and just do a quick ...