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Restriction: It’s not just for calories
I’m sitting in the Newark airport and having a sandwich at the Earl of Sandwich (it’s the only place I can sit down here, it seems). There was a sign as I came up the ramp for “PI” stating that “He’s a...
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Staying simple
A few months ago, I wrote a post about my personal development as a counter-piece of anecdotal evidence to those examples suggesting poorly supported complexity and expense to achieve a body...
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Toe-ing the line: What I think about this whole shoe thing
Oldest discovered leather shoe: 5500 years old I’ve had a few emails asking me to review some of the literature on the new shoe trend. Every company is jumping on the bandwagon to create their version...
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Burn the boats: Why you’re going to fail. Or not.
I’ve been studying and reading health research for decades, and this post is just a bit of my biased gestalt on the state of affairs on obesity, obesity research and the new hope that arises within a...
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Beta-alanine: The meta-analysis – 18 trials, still a marginal effect
I’ve always thought a meta-analysis on beta-alanine was a good idea. So many of the trials have been underpowered, that it felt like weren’t getting anywhere fast. I wanted to be the one to do it, but...
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Screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t: People don’t want to read what they...
This WOULD be a catastrophe. This week, I was asked to write a commentary for Fitocracy on what has now become known as the “Red Meat Will Kill You” Study. The fallout in the blogosphere has been...
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Don’t fix what isn’t broken
I’ve talked about information overload before, as well as information dieting (yes, before the book came out.) Today while I was changing in my gym, I overhead two guys talking. Both were built like...
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Bias doesn’t always work against you (or why gym class might not be all it’s...
This blog entry’s study comes from my friend Brad Pilon, who said, and-I-quote, “I wanna get you back to dissecting papers on your blog,” which jolted me into realizing I haven’t in a long time. One...
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How statistics can protect your willpower
Today is Valentine’s Day (Happy Valentine’s/Bitter Single’s Day!). So I thought I’d give my post a brain-washing theme (cynical much? ) With the advent of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and now, Vine,...
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Evidence and innovation: Behind or not?
Source: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/hindsight-is-always-twenty-twenty Spurred on by Bret Contreras and a Facebook link from Lars Avemarie, “If you are truly evidence-based, you’re only as good...
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