Often I hear from readers who have changed their diets and lifestyles toward a more evolutionarily sound direction ( ) that their fasting ...

I am not a big fan of reviewing new studies published in refereed journals, particularly those that make it to the news. I prefer studies...

The health effects of very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) adopted for short periods of time (e.g., 5 days) have been the target of much recent ...

Typically obesity leads to health problems via insulin resistance ( ). Excess calories are stored as fat in fat cells up to a certain poi...

Last year I traveled to South Korea to give presentations on nonlinear structural equation modeling and WarpPLS ( ). These are an advanced...

A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The study was published in ...

I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting their alcohol consum...

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

As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored relationships hinted at by Denise Minger’s previous and highl...

I am not a big fan of using arguments such as “food questionnaires are unreliable” and “observational studies are worthless” to completely d...

Perfect Health Diet is a book that one should own. It is not the type of book that you can get from your local library and just do a quick...

This comes also from the widely cited Brunner and colleagues study, published in Diabetes Care in 2006. They defined a person as glucose i...

If you are interested in the connection between blood glucose control and heart disease, you have probably done your homework. This is a sc...