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Intermittent fasting, engineered foods, leptin, and ghrelin

Engineered foods are designed by smart people, and the goal is not usually to make you healthy; the goal is to sell as many units as possibl...

For the sake of simplicity, this post treats “atheism” as synonymous with “non-spiritualism”. Technically, one can be spiritual and not beli...

I have been doing a lot of reading over the years on isolated hunter-gatherer populations; see three references at the end of this post, all...

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

Deary and colleagues (2007) conducted an interesting study on differences in intelligence scores among men and women. In the context of this...

Most human traits (e.g., body fat percentage, blood pressure, propensity toward depression) are influenced by our genes; some more than othe...

Biochemistry-based arguments can be very misleading. Yet, biochemistry can be extremely useful in the elucidation of diet and lifestyle effe...

As far as explaining natural phenomena, Darwin was one of the best theoretical researchers of all time. Yet, there were a few phenomena that...

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...

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

I find costly traits fascinating, even though they pose a serious challenge to the notion that living as we evolved to live is a good thing ...

If you follow a paleo diet, you follow a diet that aims to be consistent with evolution. This is a theory that has undergone major changes a...

Early hominid ancestors like the Australopithecines (e.g., Lucy ) were likely strict vegetarians. Meat consumption seems to have occurred at...