In previous posts on this blog covering the China Study II data we’ve looked at the competing effects of various foods, including wheat and ...
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Atheism is a recent Neolithic invention: Ancestral humans were spiritual people
For the sake of simplicity, this post treats “atheism” as synonymous with “non-spiritualism”. Technically, one can be spiritual and not beli...
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Cheese’s vitamin K2 content, pasteurization, and beneficial enzymes: Comments by Jack C.
The text below is all from commenter Jack C.’s notes on this post summarizing research on cheese. My additions are within “[ ]”. While the ...
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Total cholesterol and cardiovascular disease: A U-curve relationship
The hypothesis that blood cholesterol levels are positively correlated with heart disease (the lipid hypothesis) dates back to Rudolph Virch...
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Cheese consumption, visceral fat, and adiponectin levels
Several bacteria feed on lactose, the sugar found in milk, producing cheese for us as a byproduct of their feeding. This is why traditionall...
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The Friedewald and Iranian equations: Fasting triglycerides can seriously distort calculated LDL
This post is a revised version of a previous post . The original post has been or will be deleted, with the comments preserved. Typically th...
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Intermittent fasting as a form of liberation
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...
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What is a reasonable vitamin D level?
The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase ...
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