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...
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Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless
A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The study was published in ...
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The China Study II: Does calorie restriction increase longevity?
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longevity,
multivariate analysis,
obesity,
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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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Body fat and disease: How much body fat can I lose in one day?
adiponectin,
body fat,
fasting,
glycogen depletion,
inflammation,
intermittent fasting,
leptin,
obesity,
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Body fat is not an inert deposit of energy. It can be seen as a distributed endocrine organ. Body fat cells, or adipocytes, secrete a number...
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Income, obesity, and heart disease in US states
The figure below combines data on median income by state (bottom-left and top-right), as well as a plot of heart disease death rates against...
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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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Kleiber's law and its possible implications for obesity
Kleiber's law ( ) is one of those “laws” of nature that is both derived from, and seems to fit quite well with, empirical data. It appli...
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