I blogged before about the study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ). This stud...

Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, among other names...

Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procur...

As far as explaining natural phenomena, Darwin was one of the best theoretical researchers of all time. Yet, there were a few phenomena that...

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 (...

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 vertical auto profile (VAP) test is an enhanced lipid profile test. It has been proposed, chiefly by the company Atherotech ( ), as a mo...

There are two forms of familial hypercholesteromia (FH), namely heterozygous and homozygous FH. In heterozygous FH only one copy of the gene...

Daniel James Shellabarger (better known as Daniel Suelo) is portrayed in the bestselling 2012 nonfiction book by Mark Sundeen titled “The Ma...

A new study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ), has been gaining increasing m...

The Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 was very interesting on many levels. Aaron Blaisdell and the team of volunteers really did a superb job...

In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expenditure by a ce...

When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximately the increase in ene...