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Entries Tagged as 'Health Consequences'

Conform Or Be Cast Out!

January 24th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Diet Fads, Evolutionary Thinking, Health Consequences

Doesn’t matter if you’re low-carb, paleo, or somewhere in between.
You’re weird! You’re a geek! Don’t you understand that unlike all other animals, humans dropped out of the sky a few thousand years ago and operate on principles totally foreign to wild animals; such as unlike the folks who work in the feeding units of your [...]

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Good News & Bad News: Vitamin D vs. Statins

November 16th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Health Consequences, Heath Improvements, Supplements

First, the good news. Yep, it’s vitamin D, again (thanks to Chris for the link).

New study links vitamin D deficiency to cardiovascular disease and death
Study finds inadequate levels of Vitamin D may significantly increase risk of stroke, heart disease and death
For more than a year, the Intermountain Medical Center research team followed 27,686 patients who [...]

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Carbs Kill and Eating Animals Saves Lives

November 11th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Epidemiology, Health Consequences, Low Fat Ignorance

This is a continuation of two previous posts on saturated fat epidemiology and looking at the government data in different ways. For the background, see the previous posts:

Saturated Fat Intake vs. Heart Disease & Stroke
Drilling Down: Saturated Fat Epidemiology

As you’ll discover, the impetus behind the second post [...]

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Drilling Down: Saturated Fat Epidemiology

November 6th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Epidemiology, Health Consequences, Low Fat Ignorance

I’ve got to get this reader data out there; sooooo, the post I’ve been planning and writing to slam dunk a certain "researcher" from New Zealand will just have to wait until the first of next week. I’d planned to incorporate that with this, per my style, but I’ll just have to link it.
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Would You Give Your Kids a Case of Whiskey?

November 3rd, 2009 · 28 Comments · Health Consequences, Junk "Food"

No, you wouldn’t, would you?
And yet many out there either well into paleo eating or at least knowledgeable about it still allow their kids to consume all sorts of sweets, especially on October 31 and well into the next week. For some, the sheer volume of candy is astounding. We’re talking pounds of it.
I refuse [...]

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