Is Bisphenol A Responsible for Obesity?
According to the Boston Globe, bisphenol A levels lower than those found in 93% of people led to obesity in mice: Thousands of chemicals have come on the market in the past 30 years, and some of them...
View ArticleObesity Makes People Stupid…About Heritability
Heritability: I do not think it means what you think it means. There’s been a spate of posts about obesity, started by a post by Megan McArdle. In these posts, a high heritability for obesity is...
View ArticleMicrobiome Triumphalism and Misusing a Metaphor
Whenever a new discipline, especially one using a ‘sexy’ technology, is brought to bear on human disease, it seems to be oversold in what it will actually accomplish. In addition, every problem is...
View ArticleJust-So Stories and the ‘Evolutionary Biology Diet’
Amanda Marcotte and Rebecca Watson pointed me towards this absurd article “Why women need fat.” In fairness, I don’t dispute the idea that the recent advent of a diet full of processed sugars hasn’t...
View ArticleOvereating and Sleeplessness
While some people overeat when they’re bored or stressed (stress actually makes me less hungry), a lack of sleep has always been my downfall. Unfortunately, my experience (N = 1) is artisanal data. But...
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