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Truong Thanh Nguyen's avatar

Can you move the poll to the end of the post? I can't determine my favorite one unless I read them first.

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Kim's avatar

1.

I see raw data for nutritional surveys seem to be a treated like a state secret no matter the country.

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/000894103.pdf

According to this paper from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare; there's a graph on page 6 showing the changes in the population of men (20+) with a BMI above 20 that looks like it would fit year for year with that graph from the oil association.

On page 5 before that can also be seen a significant drop in percent of fat from animal sources, for ages 1 and up, during that same time period, while fat intake remained at around 25% of energy intake.

https://www.nibiohn.go.jp/eiken/kenkounippon21/eiyouchousa/keinen_henka_eiyou.html

https://www.nibiohn.go.jp/eiken/kenkounippon21/eiyouchousa/kekka_eiyou_chousa_nendo.html

Did find some nutritional surveys at least, but only for the period 1945-2019. And it's of course in Excel format.

5.

"The best wingman is a woman", a saying as ancient as night life.

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Eamon Cullen's avatar

Zinc/fertility post seems like absolute garbage Twitter science.

There are so many reasons why male fertility is in decline.

Never look for one answer to any one problem as a rule of thumb.

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Yokkabai's avatar

They are all interesting!

I can’t choose!

(…Furiously making cardboard cut-outs of women to place by me to see wife’s response…)

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Bobby's avatar

Point #4 is really worrisome

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Stuart Morgan's avatar

There's an episode of Seinfeld where George dates supermodels using a picture of an attractive woman (his ex) as his in.

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Dmitrii's avatar

What about the 40-50s then? Did they have lower T than the guys in 1970s?

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Maxence's avatar

I loved all the points of this week's newsletter, great work btw (as usual) !

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Kulwant Singh's avatar

I'm really looking forward to your testosterone workshop; any updates on release date?

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