plaque Familial hypercholesteromia: Why rely on cholesterol levels when more direct measures are available? 4:00 AM 0 There are two forms of familial hypercholesteromia (FH), namely heterozygous and homozygous FH. In heterozygous FH only one copy of the gene...
simple living Daniel Suelo, the man who quit money, seems remarkably healthy 4:00 AM 0 Daniel James Shellabarger (better known as Daniel Suelo) is portrayed in the bestselling 2012 nonfiction book by Mark Sundeen titled “The Ma...
saturated fat The 2012 Atherosclerosis egg study: Plaque decreased as LDL increased with consumption of 2.3 eggs per week or more 4:00 AM 0 A new study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ), has been gaining increasing m...
sleep Ancestral Health Symposium 2012: Evolutionarily sound diets and lifestyles may revolutionize health care 4:00 AM 0 The Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 was very interesting on many levels. Aaron Blaisdell and the team of volunteers really did a superb job...
weight loss The 14-percent advantage of eating little and then a lot: Putting it in practice 4:00 AM 0 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...
weight loss The 14-percent advantage of eating little and then a lot: Is it real? 4:00 AM 0 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...
muscle loss The lowest-mortality BMI: What is the role of nutrient intake from food? 4:00 AM 0 In a previous post ( ), I discussed the frequently reported lowest-mortality body mass index (BMI), which is about 26. The empirical results...