I find costly traits fascinating, even though they pose a serious challenge to the notion that living as we evolved to live is a good thing...

If you follow a paleo diet, you follow a diet that aims to be consistent with evolution. This is a theory that has undergone major changes a...

This is not a post about semantics. Using “N=1” to refer to self-experimentation is okay, as long as one understands that self-experimentat...

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...

Most relationships among variables in nature are nonlinear, frequently taking the form of a J curve. The figure below illustrates this type...

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...