The bedroom is for two things and TV watching isn’t one of them. Teens Who Have TV In Their Bedroom Are Less Likely To Engage In Healthy Habits, Study Shows - “Girls with a TV in their bedrooms spent less time in vigorous activity each week than girls without TVs in their rooms (1.8 [...]
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This is a guest post by Skyler Tanner. Skyler has been in the health, fitness, and physical performance field for nearly a decade. On top of constant self-experimentation, he maintains a large training client load in which to further test and improve theories. He recently started a website in which [...]
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I have some stuff going on in my personal life that I’m sorting through, so I’m going to be MIA a bit here. But I do have a bunch of articles I tagged to look at and thought I’d throw them out here for your perusal and discussion. Enjoy…I’ll be around, but not [...]
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I couldn’t help but grin at this title: Surprise — Cholesterol May Actually Pose Benefits, Study Shows. Uhh….surprise for whom?
Here are a few humorous quotes from the article, at least for those of us that are cholesterol skeptics.
it’s very possible that cholesterol may not be the mean Mr. Evil thing we tend to believe [...]
Now that I’ve re-devoted my free time to reading, I’m burning through books at a pretty good clip. This past week, I read Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. It was an interesting book, discussing the advantages that various diseases conferred on people throughout the ages and [...]
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About a week ago, I posted Part 1 of Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s speech on cholesterol. I finally got around to watching parts 2-5 that Chris posted in the comments. And Regina Wilshire linked to all of them on her Weight of the Evidence blog. It’s a good 45 minutes of watching, but [...]
Dr. Briffa posted an article on his blog today titled Scientists appear reluctant to admit that a serious blow has been dealt to the cholesterol hypothesis regarding this study.
First, a comment on the opening line of the Forbes article.
The link between high cholesterol and heart disease is clear to most in the medical community, but [...]
Thanks to Chris at Conditioning Research for this one:
He also has some other good links on the post I linked above. Check it out.
Friday, I posted my Letter to Dr. Bryant Stamford regarding his two fallacious articles in my local paper. He responded as follows:
HI, Scott…
thanks so much for the detailed note.
there is the misconception that in some way i’m defending simple sugar products — refined sugar.
i’m not. i think, andi believe the research literature will agree, [...]
Here is a Men’s Health article that I came across on the Performance Menu forum. It’s a brief skim-of-the-surface regarding why saturated fat won’t kill you as common wisdom tells us.
This was my favorite paragraph:
Now here’s the saturated-fat connection: Dr. Krauss found that when people replace the carbohydrates in their diet with fat–saturated or [...]
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