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Intermittent fasting, engineered foods, leptin, and ghrelin

evolution, ghrelin, intermittent fasting, leptin, obesity, research

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...

Trip to South Korea: Hidden reasons for the leanness of its people

carbohydrates, obesity, resistant starch, rice, South Korea

In September last year (2012) I went to South Korea to speak about nonlinear data analysis with WarpPLS ( ), initially for business and eng...

Obesity protects against disease, unless you eat butter

body fat, butter, humor, obesity

Notes: - This post is a joke, a weird parody of academic research, which is why it is labeled “humor” and is being filed under “Abstract hum...

How lean should one be?

BMI, body fat, diabetes, diseases of civilization, evolution, fat loss, muscle gain, muscle loss, obesity, Okinawa

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

Latitude and cancer rates in US states: Aaron Blaisdell’s intuition confirmed

aging, cancer, obesity, vitamin D, warppls

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

The China Study II: Carbohydrates, fat, calories, insulin, and obesity

carbohydrates, China Study, dietary fat, fruit, insulin, obesity, research, statistics, warppls

The “great blogosphere debate” rages on regarding the effects of carbohydrates and insulin on health. A lot of action has been happening rec...

The man who ate 25 eggs per day: What does this case really tell us?

BMI, cholesterol, egg, longevity, obesity, omega-6, omega-6 to omega-3 ratio

Many readers of this blog have probably heard about the case of the man who ate approximately 25 eggs (20 to 30) per day for over 15 years (...

Drs. Francisco Cervantes and Marivic Torregosa, and the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium

Ancestral Health Symposium, body fat, cholesterol, diabetes, epigenetics, gallbladder, Lamarckian inheritance, obesity

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

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...

The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless

diabetes, obesity, refined carbs, statistics, sugars

A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The study was published in ...

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...

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