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Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VIII
Health can be defined as the absence of disease, and that is the lens through which we've been examining meat so far. However, most of ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VII
Looking at individual diseases is informative, but it can cause us to become myopic, making broad health-related decisions based on narrow i...
Friday, January 23, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Does high protein explain the low-carb "metabolic advantage"?
In 2012, David Ludwig's group published a paper that caused quite a stir in the diet-nutrition world ( 1 ). They reported that under st...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VI
In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat consumption and cancer risk. Is cancer risk even modifiable? Cancer is...
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