John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remark...

Let us assume that we collected data on the presence or absence of a trait (e.g., propensity toward risky behavior) in a population of in...

This post is a revised version of a previous post . The original post has been or will be deleted, with the comments preserved. Typically th...

Most of the empirical investigations into the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality suggest that the lowest-mortality BM...

In my previous blog post, I argued that one’s optimal weight may be the one that minimizes one’s waist-to-weight ratio. I built this argu...

There is a significant amount of empirical evidence suggesting that, for a given individual and under normal circumstances, the optimal we...

One of the most fascinating topics for an independent health researcher is the dichotomy between short- and long-term responses in success...