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 ...
testosterone Could the low testosterone problem be a mirage? 4:00 AM 0 Low testosterone (a.k.a. “low T”) is caused by worn out glands no longer able to secrete enough T, right? At least this seems to be the mos...
War of Canudos The War of the End of the World: The health puzzle posed by its survivors 4:00 AM 0 The War of Canudos took place in Brazil in 1896 and 1897. Canudos was a settlement of several thousand deeply religious Christians, led by ...
J curve How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think 4:00 AM 0 I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting their alcohol consum...
plaque The 2012 Atherosclerosis egg study: More smoking is associated with more plaque, unless you eat more eggs 4:00 AM 0 I blogged before about the study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ). This stud...
heart disease Does tallness cause heart disease? No, but sex does 4:00 AM 0 Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, among other names...