Archive for February, 2009
The Home Life of the Stone Age Eskimo
Many speculate that prehistoric man lived on meat, particularly in the northern lands during the ice age. Fat meat is thought to be a good diet for hard-living in cold weather. Fat has a high-caloric value and this supposedly stokes the internal fires which makes it supposedly more suitable than carbohydrates. The theory continues [...]
In: Diet, Populations
The Significance of Diabetes, Part 3
Most diabetologists believed that diabetic complications are caused by the toxic effects of high blood sugar, despite the fact that this view cannot explain why atherosclerosis has remained relatively impervious to insulin therapy. Unfortunately, the carbohydrate hypothesis is only being pursued in a few laboratories. As a result, its ultimate implications and validity remain to [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Insulin
The Significance of Diabetes, Part 2
Just as in 1921 when insulin was discovered, Type 2 diabetics can still expect to die five to ten years prematurely due to coronary artery disease. This is quite a sobering thought. This goes far beyond losing some weight. This is all about saving lives. This is what makes me continue to want to research [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Insulin
The Significance of Diabetes, Part 1
Elevated insulin and its ability to cause or exacerbate atherosclerosis is another conception that has been mostly neglected for decades, despite the profound implications if it’s true. Harvard diabetologist Edward Feener and Victor Dzau of the Duke University Health System wrote that “the effects of insulin on cardiovascular disease in diabetes and insulin resistance are [...]
In: Cholesterol, Diabetes, Diet, Insulin, Obesity
Cultural vs. Natural Selection, the Conclusion
It appears those who are able to have the most children are have the fewest. To test for this inverse relationship, the demographer Daniel Vining compared the number of children fathered by white men listed in Who’s Who with the average number of children of same-age white women in the population as a whole. Starting with the [...]
In: Insulin, Populations
