Archive for the ‘Populations’ Category
Save our Troops!
Tweet The article has been available since August of 2012 but I missed it for some reason. The men and women of arguably the greatest fighting force on earth are killing themselves in unprecedented numbers, at least according to the statistics kept. “Suicide is the toughest enemy I have faced in my 37 years in [...]
In: Cholesterol, Depression, Pemmican, Populations, Stroke
Getting Fatter
Tweet The news on weight only gets worse. The excuses and recommendations remain the same — completely ineffectual. The doctors believe that no one is listening to them. They think it’s a simple matter of eating less and exercising more. The fact is that in 1995, there was not a single state with an obesity [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Insulin, Obesity, Populations, Sugar
I Am Therefore I Think!
Tweet The title comes from John Galt, the character of Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged. He declared that “man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is the only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is [...]
In: Anthropology, Cancer, Diet, Disease, Obesity, Populations
Gary Taubes vs. Dr. Oz
Tweet I’m sure I’ll have more to say on this topic in the coming days, but for now I will share the comment I posted directly on his blog: What bothers me is that the focus on weight takes away from the most powerful research that Taubes found when preparing GCBC in the first place. [...]
In: Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Populations
In Praise of the Buffalo
Tweet On our forum, we have an individual who likes to make pemmican using the buffalo. History buffs will note that buffalo supplied the diet for the natives of the Great Plains for centuries. In most populations, their consumption of bison was exclusive. Only the cowboys attempting to push across the country interrupted this symbiont [...]
In: Diet, Pemmican, Populations
