In this post on the China Study II data we have seen that wheat apparently displaces dietary fat a lot, primarily fat from animal sources. ...
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The “pork paradox”? National pork consumption and obesity
In my previous post ( ) I discussed some country data linking pork consumption and health, analyzed with WarpPLS ( ). One of the datasets us...
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Does pork consumption cause cirrhosis? Perhaps, if people become obese from eating pork
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The China Study II: A look at mortality in the 35-69 and 70-79 age ranges
This post is based on an analysis of a subset of the China Study II data, using HealthCorrelator for Excel (HCE) , which is publicly availab...
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The lowest-mortality BMI: What is its relationship with fat-free mass?
Do overweight folks live longer? It is not uncommon to see graphs like the one below, from the Med Journal Watch blog ( ), suggesting that, ...
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How come evolution hasn’t made us immortal? Death, like sex, helps animal populations avoid extinction
Genes do not evolve, nor do traits that are coded for our genes. We say that they evolve to facilitate discourse, which is alright. Populati...
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