Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

The War of Canudos took place in Brazil in 1896 and 1897. Canudos was a settlement of several thousand deeply religious Christians, led by ...

Labels: Brazilian sertão, calorie restriction, cangaceiros, immunocompetence, infectious diseases, jagunço, longevity, sertanejo, stress, The War of the End of the World, viral diabetes, War of Canudos

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

Many readers of this blog have probably heard about the case of the man who ate approximately 25 eggs (20 to 30) per day for over 15 years (...

Labels: BMI, cholesterol, egg, longevity, obesity, omega-6, omega-6 to omega-3 ratio

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

In a previous post ( ), I discussed the frequently reported lowest-mortality body mass index (BMI), which is about 26. The empirical results...

Labels: BMI, body fat, calorie restriction, longevity, mortality, multivariate analysis, muscle gain, muscle loss

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

Do overweight folks live longer? It is not uncommon to see graphs like the one below, from the Med Journal Watch blog ( ), suggesting that, ...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, longevity, mortality, multivariate analysis, muscle gain, muscle loss

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored relationships hinted at by Denise Minger’s previous and highl...

Labels: diabetes, haemochromatosis, iron overload, longevity, mortality, red meat, warppls

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

I am not a big fan of using arguments such as “food questionnaires are unreliable” and “observational studies are worthless” to completely d...

Labels: diabetes, HCE, longevity, mortality, red meat, warppls

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

In my previous post ( ) I discussed some country data linking pork consumption and health, analyzed with WarpPLS ( ). One of the datasets us...

Labels: alcohol, liver disease, longevity, obesity, pork

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

The idea that pork consumption may cause cirrhosis has been around for a while. A fairly widely cited 1985 study by Nanji and French ( ) pro...

Labels: alcohol, cancer, cirrhosis, hormesis, liver disease, longevity, obesity, pork

Posted by Admin | 3:21 PM

The graph below shows the mortality in the 35-69 and 70-79 age ranges for men and women for the China Study II dataset. I discussed other re...

Labels: China Study, gender, longevity, protein, research, smoking, statistics, warppls, wheat