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Breasts: two great reasons to avoid trans fats. Trans-fats may hike breast cancer risk (Abstract)- “Writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Veronique Chajes from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) reports that high blood levels of trans fatty acids, but not cis fatty acids, was associated with a [...]

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I just finished reading The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. This is an exceptional book. It’s a very easy read, about 315 pages, which I finished in 5 days.
Ms. Thomas spent several years of her life living with the Ju/Wasi (aka Bushmen, San, !Kung) in the [...]

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Art De Vany posted this link a few days ago regarding Longevity and Health in Ancient Paleolithic vs Neolithic Peoples. While I’ve heard talk of our more robust Paleolithic ancestors, I hadn’t seen the stats to back it up. Ward Nicholson has quite an extensive table showing the differences in [...]

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