How Often Should We Test?

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Over the past few years there have been some truly abysmal scientific research papers published on the futility of frequent self-testing by ...

The Inuit: Lessons from the Arctic

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The Inuit (also called Eskimo) are a group of hunter-gatherer cultures who inhabit the arctic regions of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. They ...

Book Review: "The Human Diet: Its Origins and Evolution"

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I recently read this book after discovering it on another health site. It's a compilation of chapters written by several researchers in...

Past, Present and Future

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When diagnosed with a serious chronic condition, it's a totally human reaction to immediately ask "Why me?" and to start revie...

Sunscreen and Melanoma

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Melanoma is the most deadly type of skin cancer, accounting for most skin cancer deaths in the US. As Ross pointed out in the comments sect...

The Price of Eating Healthy

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Money can be tight in these troubled times of bank closures and uncertainty. As well as medical costs, this response I received recently whe...

Grains and Human Evolution

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[Update 8/2011: as I've learned more about human genetics and evolution, I've come to appreciate that many Europeans actually descen...

Another China Tidbit

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A final note about the Chinese study in the previous post: the overweight vegetable-eaters (read: wheat eaters) exercised more than their no...

Wheat in China

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Dr. Michael Eades linked to an interesting study yesterday on his Health and Nutrition blog. It's entitled "Vegetable-Rich Food ...

Cancer in Other Non-Industrialized Cultures

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In Cancer, Disease of Civilization (1960), Wilhjalmur Stefansson mentions a few cultures besides the Inuit in which large-scale searches ne...

Mortality and Lifespan of the Inuit

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One of the classic counter-arguments that's used to discredit accounts of healthy hunter-gatherers is the fallacy that they were short-l...

Cancer Among the Inuit

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I remember coming across a table in the book Eat, Drink and Be Healthy (by Dr. Walter Willett) a few years back. Included were data taken ...

Cancer and the Immune System

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My understanding of cancer has changed radically over the past few months. I used to think of it as an inevitable consequence of aging, a st...

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