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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content...

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

The table below is from a study by Hayat and colleagues ( ). It illustrates one common trend regarding cancer – it increases dramatically...

For most people, dog attacks are not very common. But they happen occasionally, and the experience can be traumatic. Incidentally, they ar...

John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remark...

Let us assume that we collected data on the presence or absence of a trait (e.g., propensity toward risky behavior) in a population of in...

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Most of the empirical investigations into the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality suggest that the lowest-mortality BM...

In my previous blog post, I argued that one’s optimal weight may be the one that minimizes one’s waist-to-weight ratio. I built this argu...

There is a significant amount of empirical evidence suggesting that, for a given individual and under normal circumstances, the optimal we...

One of the most fascinating topics for an independent health researcher is the dichotomy between short- and long-term responses in success...

There are many published studies with evidence that cholesterol levels are positively associated with heart disease. In multivariate analy...

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