The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless

A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained sign… read more » The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless

How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think

I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include … read more » How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think

Does tallness cause heart disease? No, but sex does

Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical p… read more » Does tallness cause heart disease? No, but sex does

The 2012 Arch Intern Med red meat-mortality study: Eating 234 g/d of red meat could reduce mortality by 23 percent

As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored … read more » The 2012 Arch Intern Med red meat-mortality study: Eating 234 g/d of red meat could reduce mortality by 23 percent

The 2012 red meat-mortality study (Arch Intern Med): The data suggests that red meat is protective

I am not a big fan of using arguments such as “food questionnaires are unreliab… read more » The 2012 red meat-mortality study (Arch Intern Med): The data suggests that red meat is protective

Book review: Perfect Health Diet

Perfect Health Diet is a book that one should own. It is not the type of book … read more » Book review: Perfect Health Diet

Being glucose intolerant may make you live only to be 96, if you would otherwise live to be 100

This comes also from the widely cited Brunner and colleagues study , published … read more » Being glucose intolerant may make you live only to be 96, if you would otherwise live to be 100

Fasting blood glucose of 83 mg/dl and heart disease: Fact and fiction

If you are interested in the connection between blood glucose control and heart… read more » Fasting blood glucose of 83 mg/dl and heart disease: Fact and fiction