warppls Latitude and cancer rates in US states: Aaron Blaisdell’s intuition confirmed 4:00 AM 0 In the comments section of my previous post on cancer rates in the US states ( ) my friend Aaron Blaisdell noted that: …comparing states ...
South Korea Trip to South Korea: Hidden reasons for the leanness of its people 4:00 AM 0 In September last year (2012) I went to South Korea to speak about nonlinear data analysis with WarpPLS ( ), initially for business and eng...
obesity Drs. Francisco Cervantes and Marivic Torregosa, and the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium 4:00 AM 0 Last year I traveled to South Korea to give presentations on nonlinear structural equation modeling and WarpPLS ( ). These are an advanced...
sugars The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless 4:00 AM 0 A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The study was published in ...
omega-6 to omega-3 ratio The man who ate 25 eggs per day: What does this case really tell us? 4:00 AM 0 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 (...
statistics The steep obesity increase in the USA in the 1980s: In a sense, it reflects a major success story 4:00 AM 0 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...
pork The “pork paradox”? National pork consumption and obesity 4:00 AM 0 In my previous post ( ) I discussed some country data linking pork consumption and health, analyzed with WarpPLS ( ). One of the datasets us...
pork Does pork consumption cause cirrhosis? Perhaps, if people become obese from eating pork 4:00 AM 0 The idea that pork consumption may cause cirrhosis has been around for a while. A fairly widely cited 1985 study by Nanji and French ( ) pro...
weight loss Kleiber's law and its possible implications for obesity 4:00 AM 0 Kleiber's law ( ) is one of those “laws” of nature that is both derived from, and seems to fit quite well with, empirical data. It appli...
skinny-fat Men who are skinny-fat: There are quite a few of them 4:00 AM 0 The graph below (from Wikipedia) plots body fat percentage (BF) against body mass index (BMI) for men. The data is a bit old: 1994. The top...
warppls The China Study II: Carbohydrates, fat, calories, insulin, and obesity 4:00 AM 0 The “great blogosphere debate” rages on regarding the effects of carbohydrates and insulin on health. A lot of action has been happening re...
Okinawa How lean should one be? 7:20 AM 0 Loss of muscle mass is associated with aging. It is also associated with the metabolic syndrome, together with excessive body fat gain. It i...