The term “diabetes” is used to describe a wide range of diseases of glucose metabolism; diseases with a wide range of c…

I love statistics. But statistics is the science that will tell you that each person in a group of 20 people ate half a…

Often I hear from readers who have changed their diets and lifestyles toward a more evolutionarily sound direction ( …

I am not a big fan of reviewing new studies published in refereed journals, particularly those that make it to the ne…

The health effects of very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) adopted for short periods of time (e.g., 5 days) have been the t…

Typically obesity leads to health problems via insulin resistance ( ). Excess calories are stored as fat in fat cells…

Last year I traveled to South Korea to give presentations on nonlinear structural equation modeling and WarpPLS ( ). …

A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The st…

I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting…

Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationshi…

As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored relationships hinted at by Denise Minger…

I am not a big fan of using arguments such as “food questionnaires are unreliable” and “observational studies are worth…