warppls Aging and cancer: The importance of taking a hard look at the numbers 4:00 AM 0 The table below is from a study by Hayat and colleagues ( ). It illustrates one common trend regarding cancer – it increases dramatically...
stress How to handle a dog attack 4:00 AM 0 For most people, dog attacks are not very common. But they happen occasionally, and the experience can be traumatic. Incidentally, they ar...
waist-to-weight ratio Waist-to-weight ratios in pictures: The John Stone transformation 4:00 AM 0 John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remark...
Zahavian traits Could we have evolved traits that are detrimental to our survival? 5:58 AM 0 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...
statistics We share an ancestor who probably lived no more than 640 years ago 4:00 AM 0 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...
waist-to-weight ratio How can carrying some extra body fat be healthy? 4:00 AM 0 Most of the empirical investigations into the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality suggest that the lowest-mortality BM...
waist-to-weight ratio An illustration of the waist-to-weight ratio theory: The fit2fat2fit experiment 4:00 AM 0 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...