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Let us say you are one of the gifted few who are able to put on 1 lb of pure muscle per month, or 12 lbs per year, by combining strength tra...

The bar chart below shows the fat content of 1 sardine (38 g) canned in tomato sauce, and 2 fish oil softgels of the Nature Made brand. (The...

Nuts are generally seen as good sources of protein and magnesium. The latter plays a number of roles in the human body, and is considered cr...

Undoubtedly one of the big differences between life today and in our Paleolithic past is the level of stress that modern humans face on a da...

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 ...

Let me start this post with a note about Scooby , who is a massive bodybuilder who has a great website with tips on how to exercise at home...

Pressure cooking relies on physics to take advantage of the high temperatures of liquids and vapors in a sealed container. The sealed contai...

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

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

The figure below, taken from Wilmore et al. (2007), is based on a classic 1972 study conducted by Ariel and Saville . The study demonstrated...

As I said before on this blog, I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut problems. I am refe...

When protein-rich foods, like meat, are ingested they are first broken down into peptides through digestion. As digestion continues, peptide...

When it comes to losing fat and maintaining muscle, at the same time, there are no shortcuts. The process generally has to be slow to be hea...

I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut problems. I am referring here to high heat cooking...

Blood glucose levels in birds are often 2-4 times higher than those in mammals of comparable size. Yet birds often live 3 times longer than ...

The idea that calorie restriction extends human life comes largely from studies of other species. The most relevant of those studies have be...

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...