Health Correlator

The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase in blood concentrations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin, or 25(OH)...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-reasonable-vitamin-d-level.html

In another post ( ) on the China Study II, I analyzed the effect of total and HDL cholesterol on mortality from all cardiovascular diseases. The main conclusion was that total and HDL cholesterol...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/09/china-study-ii-wheat-flour-rice-and.html

In a previous post ( ), I discussed the frequently reported lowest-mortality body mass index (BMI), which is about 26. The empirical results reviewed in that post suggest that fat-free mass plays...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2012/07/lowest-mortality-bmi-what-is-role-of.html

The figure below is one of many in Weston Price’s outstanding book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration showing evidence of teeth crowding among children whose parents moved from a traditional ...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2011/05/looking-for-good-orthodontist-my.html

We all evolved from one single-celled organism that lived billions of years ago. I don’t see why this is so hard for some people to believe, given that all of us also developed from a single fe...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2013/08/we-share-ancestor-who-probably-lived-no.html

The photos below, from Wikipedia, show two patterns of abdominal fat deposition. The one on the left is predominantly of subcutaneous abdominal fat deposition. The one on the right is an example ...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/07/subcutaneous-versus-visceral-fat-how-to.html

Standard lipid profiles provide LDL cholesterol measures based on equations that usually have the following as their inputs (or independent variables): total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and tri...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-friedewald-and-iranian-equations.html

First of all, many thanks are due to Dr. Campbell and his collaborators for collecting and compiling the data used in this analysis. The data has been compliled by those researchers to dissemina...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/09/china-study-ii-cholesterol-seems-to.html

There is a pervasive belief today that grain-fed beef is unhealthy, a belief that I addressed before in this blog ( ) and that I think is exaggerated. This general belief seems to also apply to ...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2013/07/could-grain-fed-beef-liver-be.html

Many years ago, when I started blogging about health issues, I noticed a couple of interesting patterns. The first pattern is that prominent health “gurus” often talk about having had seriou...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2016/01/do-prominent-health-gurus-live-longer.html

When it comes to losing fat and maintaining muscle, at the same time, there are no shortcuts. The process generally has to be slow to be healthy. When one loses a lot of weight in a few days, mos...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-amounts-of-water-carbohydrates-fat.html

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is one of the five main types of lipoproteins found in circulation, together with very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), intermediate-density lipoprotein (IDL), low-d...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2015/05/large-ldl-and-small-hdl-particles-best.html

The idea that heavy physical activity is a main trigger of heart attacks is widespread. Often endurance running and cardio-type activities are singled out. Some people refer to this as “death b...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-heavy-physical-activity-trigger-of.html

What is a good low carbohydrate diet? For me, and many people I know, the answer is: a low calorie one. What this means, in simple terms, is that a good low carbohydrate diet is one with plenty...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-is-good-low-carbohydrate-diet-it.html

Moderate strength training has a number of health benefits, and is viewed by many as an important component of a natural lifestyle that approximates that of our Stone Age ancestors. It increases...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/08/theory-of-supercompensation-strength.html

The hypothesis that blood cholesterol levels are positively correlated with heart disease (the lipid hypothesis) dates back to Rudolph Virchow in the mid-1800s. One famous study that supported ...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2009/12/total-cholesterol-and-cardiovascular.html

There is a significant amount of empirical evidence suggesting that, for a given individual and under normal circumstances, the optimal weight is the one that maximizes the ratio below, where: L...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-is-your-optimal-weight-maybe-it-is.html

Our body naturally produces as much as 10,000 IU of vitamin D based on a few minutes of sun exposure when the sun is high. Getting that much vitamin D from dietary sources is very difficult, eve...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2011/02/vitamin-d-production-from-uv-radiation.html

The idea that heavy physical activity is a main trigger of heart attacks is widespread. Often endurance running and cardio-type activities are singled out. Some people refer to this as “death ...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2015/04/heavy-physical-activity-may.html

Insulin is often presented as a hormone that is at the core of the diseases of civilization, particularly because of the insulin response elicited by foods rich in refined carbohydrates and sugar...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/04/insulin-responses-to-foods-rich-in.html

Platelets ( ) are particles that circulate in the blood of mammals. They react to blood vessel injuries by forming clots. Platelet counts are provided in standard blood panels, and are used by m...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2021/12/age-related-trends-in-health-markers.html

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 (probably well over), was almost 90 years old (88) when ...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-man-who-ate-25-eggs-per-day-what.html

The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a design that favors asymmetric food consumption. That is, most animals are...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2014/12/you-can-eat-lot-during-holiday-season.html

By definition LC is about dietary carbohydrate restriction. If you are reducing carbohydrates, your proportional intake of protein or fat, or both, will go up. While I don’t think there is anyt...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2011/07/dietary-protein-does-not-become-body.html

In this previous post I analyzed some data from the China Study that included counties where there were cases of schistosomiasis infection. Following one of Denise Minger ’s suggestions, I rem...

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/07/china-study-one-more-time-are-raw-plant.html