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You are going to die.
So there’s been ANOTHER study on some food and mortality. Last time, it was red meat. This time, it’s eggs. To be honest, I’m not even going to read it. (Ok, I lied. I read it. Who are we kidding?)...
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30 seconds of idiocy. The cure for cancer is delayed by decades.
There was a really interesting letter in the journal Nature on Thursday, “Australia’s grant system wastes time,” which was about how much time goes into preparing a grant for funding with Australia’s...
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The State of Evidence-Based Fitness
By Randal Monroe: xkcd.com I wanted to start my new site with a new post, but as with everything on this site, I get most of my blogging ideas from other people. I got the idea to write this entry from...
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When is a calorie not a calorie? To get to the other side (Yup, just another...
By Gary Larson This one gets bandied around a lot: “A calorie isn’t a calorie.” It’s a clever gimmicky catch-phrase because it a) challenges the reader to re-evaluate what they think is a set-in-stone...
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Holy hell balls, only 2 weeks of class on obesity? (Or, why I really...
Medical school is full of stuff to learn. A lot of stuff. Every day is a new day of a massive volume of information. It’s like trying to take a sip from a fire hose. Residency is even more. The AMA...
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Just what IS ‘peer-review’, exactly?
by Gary Larson Of all of the research-related activities I’ve done, short of actual research, peer-review is the activity I do the most, and the one that I’ve been doing the longest. I regularly review...
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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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What is plastic surgery?
Photo credit: http://artificialhand.blogspot.ca/ I realize that there are a lot of faithful readers of my blog that date back to 2007, and hopefully some folks who go back further to my ramblings on...
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How to decide when you don’t know how to decide
I don’t know why they picked 29, since that the atomic number for copper, but this design is from http://www.whatonearthcatalog.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?action=DETAIL&ITEM=CL9321 Two things happened...
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Do I or don’t I….go to medical school?
Because finding an image for this post was too much work after I wrote this. Credit: XKCD.com (my one true love) I’m going to make an even further departure from my regular theme of posts as I’ve been...
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50 ways to take a better poop
An actual ad that I passed by whilst on the escalator on the Hong Kong subway for a ‘digestive aid’ targeted at women Everybody poops. You don’t even have to learn how, unless it’s important to go in...
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Systematic Reviews: All that glitters is not gold.
Photo credit: http://www.luckypanner.com This is a short article I submitted to Science-Based Medicine a couple of years ago, which never made it to their blog and then I forgot about it. But then I...
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All studies are wrong, unless they’re not
You know me. I’m always late to the internet parties. Recently, a few more click-bait sites have gone on to talk about how most research findings are false. A few months ago, the article, “Why you...
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Why Asians are thinner: On Cultural Reduction and Health
Recently, a very prominent website published an article on why Asians tend to be thinner than what I can only presume to be Caucasians (as the writer is Caucasian). It’s not the first article on this...
View ArticleBlindness to costs
Evidence helps me make decisions when the cost of intervention is high and immediate. Once I make the cut, I can never take it back. There are no do-overs and the damage I personally inflict on a...
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The long-anticipated fall of the systematic review
You may have noticed that for a blog that is called “Evidence-Based Fitness”, that there is not one single mention or reference to the “Hierarchy of Evidence” pyramid. This is entirely intentional. I...
View ArticlePing-ponging with IFAST on mentorship (Part 1)
I was going to write a post about belief and mentoring, but the post took on a life of its own and this tangent became so important that I thought breaking the idea up into two parts would be better....
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STAHP! Please, just STAHP.
There’s a dark humour quote in surgery, “There is no surgery so simple that a resident can’t screw it up.” I’ve decided to make up an adage, “There is no concept or idea that the fitness/nutrition...
View Article“Why is a plastic surgeon taking PRI?”
This was the most frequently asked question of this weekend at the Myokinematics course hosted by my friend Bill Hartman at IFAST. I am not going to reveal the second and third most frequently asked...
View ArticleThe most important thing
I get asked a lot about critical appraisal (i.e. how to read a research paper). I have never had a good answer because it’s not a single skill, but the convergence of many skills coming together to...
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