Loren Cordain
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#149
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#48
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Nutrition
#11
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#11
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#9
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#1827
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#555
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#137
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#12
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Loren Cordain's Degrees
- PhD Exercise Physiology University of Utah
- Bachelors Physical Education Pacific University
Why Is Loren Cordain Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Loren Cordain is an American scientist who specializes in the fields of nutrition and exercise physiology. He is notable as an advocate of the Paleolithic diet. Education Loren Cordain obtained a B.S. in Health Sciences from Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon in 1972. In 1978 he got his M.Sc. in Exercise Physiology at the University of Nevada-Reno. In 1981 he was awarded his Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology by the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Loren Cordain's Published Works
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Published Works
- Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century. (2005) (2065)
- Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient energy estimations in worldwide hunter-gatherer diets. (2000) (709)
- Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization. (2002) (519)
- Optimal low-density lipoprotein is 50 to 70 mg/dl: lower is better and physiologically normal. (2004) (497)
- The paradoxical nature of hunter-gatherer diets: meat-based, yet non-atherogenic (2002) (372)
- Cardiovascular disease resulting from a diet and lifestyle at odds with our Paleolithic genome: how to become a 21st-century hunter-gatherer. (2004) (303)
- The western diet and lifestyle and diseases of civilization (2011) (270)
- Physical activity, energy expenditure and fitness: an evolutionary perspective. (1998) (266)
- Cereal grains: humanity's double-edged sword. (1999) (262)
- Fatty acid analysis of wild ruminant tissues: evolutionary implications for reducing diet-related chronic disease (2002) (218)
- Hyperinsulinemic diseases of civilization: more than just Syndrome X. (2003) (214)
- Evolutionary health promotion. (2002) (211)
- Dietary intake of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids during the paleolithic. (1998) (202)
- Estimated macronutrient and fatty acid intakes from an East African Paleolithic diet (2010) (191)
- An evolutionary analysis of the aetiology and pathogenesis of juvenile-onset myopia. (2002) (165)
- Implications for the role of diet in acne. (2005) (152)
- Dissociation of the glycaemic and insulinaemic responses to whole and skimmed milk (2005) (108)
- The effects of an aerobic running program on bowel transit time. (1986) (108)
- Exercise like a hunter-gatherer: a prescription for organic physical fitness. (2011) (94)
- Modulation of immune function by dietary lectins in rheumatoid arthritis (2000) (88)
- Fatty Acid Composition and Energy Density of Foods Available to African Hominids (2001) (83)
- Evolutionary health promotion: a consideration of common counterarguments. (2002) (83)
- Body composition determination in children using bioelectrical impedance. (1988) (81)
- Influence of moderate daily wine consumption on body weight regulation and metabolism in healthy free-living males. (1997) (80)
- Influence of moderate chronic wine consumption on insulin sensitivity and other correlates of syndrome X in moderately obese women. (2000) (80)
- Milk miRNAs: simple nutrients or systemic functional regulators? (2016) (72)
- Achieving hunter-gatherer fitness in the 21(st) century: back to the future. (2010) (69)
- Evolutionary aspects of diet: old genes, new fuels. Nutritional changes since agriculture. (1997) (69)
- Evolutionary aspects of exercise. (1997) (68)
- Lung volumes and maximal respiratory pressures in collegiate swimmers and runners. (1990) (67)
- The Nutritional Characteristics of a Contemporary Diet Based Upon Paleolithic Food Groups (2002) (61)
- Biological and Clinical Potential of a Palaeolithic Diet (2003) (61)
- Diet-dependent acid load, Paleolithic [corrected] nutrition, and evolutionary health promotion. (2010) (55)
- Dietary salt restriction improves pulmonary function in exercise-induced asthma. (2000) (53)
- Wetsuits, body density and swimming performance. (1991) (53)
- Pulmonary Structure and Function in Swimmers (1988) (51)
- The impact of cow's milk-mediated mTORC1-signaling in the initiation and progression of prostate cancer (2012) (47)
- Dietary fat quality and coronary heart disease prevention: A unified theory based on evolutionary, historical, global, and modern perspectives (2009) (44)
- Fatty acid composition and energy density of foods available to African hominids. Evolutionary implications for human brain development. (2001) (43)
- Hunter‐gatherers: An interdisciplinary perspective (2002) (40)
- Normoxic and acute hypoxic exercise tolerance in man following acetazolamide. (1990) (36)
- The Paleo Diet (2001) (32)
- Evolution, body composition, insulin receptor competition, and insulin resistance. (2009) (30)
- Nutritional strategies for skeletal and cardiovascular health: hard bones, soft arteries, rather than vice versa (2016) (30)
- Exercise-induced changes in plasma vitamin B-6 concentrations do not vary with exercise intensity. (1994) (25)
- Dietary chloride as a possible determinant of the severity of exercise-induced asthma (2001) (25)
- Scant evidence of periodic starvation among hunter-gatherers (1999) (22)
- A Disease of Western Civilization (2002) (22)
- Macronutrient estimations in hunter-gatherer diets. (2000) (22)
- Bone Mineral Density of the Skull in Premenopausal Women (1997) (21)
- Residual lung volume and ventilatory muscle strength changes following maximal and submaximal exercise. (1994) (20)
- Organic Fitness: Physical Activity Consistent with our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage (2010) (20)
- 19 Implications of Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Diets for Modern Humans (2006) (20)
- Metabolic effects of milk protein intake strongly depend on pre-existing metabolic and exercise status (2013) (19)
- Determinants of serum triglycerides and high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol in traditional Trobriand Islanders: the Kitava Study (2003) (17)
- Elevating dietary salt exacerbates hyperpnea-induced airway obstruction in guinea pigs. (2001) (17)
- Ultraviolet radiation represents an evolutionary selective pressure for the south-to-north gradient of the MTHFR 677TT genotype. (2006) (16)
- Comment on acne and glycemic index. (2008) (16)
- Metabolic and heart rate responses to submaximal arm lever and arm crank ergometry. (1985) (16)
- ARTERIAL DESATURATION DURING ARM EXERCISE WITH CONTROLLED FREQUENCY BREATHING (1985) (15)
- Coronary artery disease prognosis and C-reactive protein levels improve in proportion to percent lowering of low-density lipoprotein. (2006) (15)
- Arterial O2 saturation and maximum O2 consumption in moderate-altitude runners exposed to sea level and 3,050 m. (1984) (13)
- An evolutionary foundation for health promotion. (2001) (12)
- Maximal respiratory pressures and pulmonary function in male runners. (1987) (12)
- Saturated Fat Consumption in Ancestral Human Diets: Implications for Contemporary Intakes (2006) (12)
- Biodiversity in Agriculture: Malaria and Rickets Represent Selective Forces for the Convergent Evolution of Adult Lactase Persistence (2012) (11)
- Paleo diet for athletes (2005) (11)
- Evolutionary stable strategy: a test for theories of retroviral pathology which are based upon the concept of molecular mimicry. (2000) (9)
- Metabolic consequences of reduced frequency breathing during submaximal exercise at moderate altitude (2004) (9)
- African hominin stable isotopic data do not necessarily indicate grass consumption (2013) (8)
- Serum uric acid in traditional Pacific Islanders and in Swedes (2004) (8)
- Reply to SC Cunnane (2005) (7)
- Paleolithic nutrition : what did our ancestors eat ? (2009) (6)
- Corrigendum to “Evolution, body composition, insulin receptor competition, and insulin resistance” [Preventive Medicine 49 (2009) 283–285] (2011) (6)
- Postulating the major environmental condition resulting in the expression of essential hypertension and its associated cardiovascular diseases: Dietary imprudence in daily selection of foods in respect of their potassium and sodium content resulting in oxidative stress-induced dysfunction of the vas (2018) (5)
- These non-evolutionary food classes carry with them certain health risks with elevated intake, now being traced at the biochemical and genetic levels. The Late Role of Grains and Legumes in the Human Diet, and Biochemical Evidence of their Evolutionary Discordance (1999) (4)
- Ingestion of Wheat Germ in Healthy Subjects Does Not Acutely Elevate Plasma Wheat Germ Agglutinin Concentrations (2010) (4)
- Potassium content of the fat free body in children. (1989) (4)
- The potential role of biotin insufficiency on essential fatty acid metabolism and cardiovascular disease risk (2000) (4)
- Variability of Body Composition Assessments in Men Exhibiting Extreme Muscular Hypertrophy (1995) (4)
- Endothelial Biomedicine: The Ancestral Biomedical Environment (2007) (3)
- A Low Sodium Diet Improves Indices of Pulmonary Function In Exercise-Induced Asthma (2011) (3)
- Does creatine supplementation enhance athletic performance? (1998) (3)
- Reply to ARP Walker (2001) (2)
- Debunking the vegan myth: The case for a plant-forward omnivorous whole-foods diet. (2022) (2)
- Alcohol, wine and obesity (1998) (2)
- REVIEW Evolutionary Health Promotion (2002) (2)
- Short term aerobic training reduces residual lung volume in women. (1985) (1)
- Optimal lipids, statins, and dementia: Reply (2005) (1)
- VENTILATORY MUSCLE STRENGTH RESPONSES TO AEROBIC TRAINING IN WOMEN (1982) (1)
- Influence of postexercise glucose ingestion upon serum potassium levels and ECG function. (1994) (1)
- Atherogenic potential of peanut oil-based monounsaturated fatty acids diets (1998) (1)
- Nutrition and Exercise A Low Sodium Diet Improves Indices Of Pulmonary Function In Exercise-Induced Asthma (2000) (1)
- EXERCISE CAPACITY AND LIPID PEROXIDATION DURING HYPOBARIC EXPOSURE WITH VITAMIN E SUPPLEMENTATION 1418 (1997) (0)
- *BONE MARROW FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF GRASS-FED CATTLE : NUTRITIONAL APLICATION MERADA BESLENEN SIĞIRLARIN KESIM SONRASI KEMIK ILIĞI YAĞ ASIT KOMPOZISYONU: BESLENMEYE (2018) (0)
- COMPILED ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE AEROBIC FITNESS, STRENGTH AND BODY COMPOSITION OF UNACCULTURATED HUMANS (1999) (0)
- DIETARY SALT CONSUMPTION AND LEUKOTRIENE-DEPENDENT HYPERPNEA-INDUCED AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION IN GUINEA PIGS (2001) (0)
- The Hunter-Gatherer Diet: In Response (2004) (0)
- ptimal Low-Density Lipoprotein Is 50 to 70 mg / dl ower Is Better and Physiologically Normal ames (2016) (0)
- Pulmonary Function Analysis Using An Inexpensive Personal Computer (1983) (0)
- Contents The Evolutionary Basis for the Therapeutic Effects of High Protein Diets (2006) (0)
- BONE MARROW FATTY ACID COMPOSITION IN GRASS-FED CATTLE AFTER SLAUGHTER: NUTRITIONAL IMPLICATIONS (2018) (0)
- The Hunter-Gatherer diet. Authors' reply (2004) (0)
- LOW-SODIUM DIET IMPROVES EXERCISE PULMONARY FUNCTION IN EXERCISE-INDUCED ASTHMA (1998) (0)
- Effects of an aerobic training program on ventilatory muscle strength in untrained women (1981) (0)
- Is moderate intensity, intermittent exercise effective for fitness or weight loss? (1998) (0)
- EFFECT OF DIFFERING GLYCEMIC INDEX PRE-EXERCISE MEALS ON SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION AND PERFORMANCE 727 (1997) (0)
- A THEORETICAL BASIS BY WHICH EXERCISE-INDUCED IONIC FLUX MAY CONTROL MITOSIS IN MUSCLE SATELLITE CELLS (1999) (0)
- Metabolic consequences of reduced frequency breathing during submaximal cycling exercise (1988) (0)
- 295 CARDIOVASCULAR ADAPTATIONS TO ORTHOSTATIC STRESS IN AEROBIC AND RESISTANCE TRAINED ATHLETES (1993) (0)
- Computer Applications and Directions in University Level Physical Education: A Survey (1986) (0)
- Evolutionary Aspects of Nutrition and Health: Diet, Exercise, Genetics and Chronic Disease. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 84. Edited by A. P. SIMOPOULOS. Basel: Karger. 1999. Pp. 145. US $172.25, Sw.Fr. 198, DM 237 (1999) (0)
- MAXIMALRESPIRATORY PRESSURES ANDPULMONARYFUNCTIONINMALERUNNERS (1987) (0)
- The relationship of body composition to the twelve minute run (1978) (0)
- Hyperinsulinemic Diseases of Civilization: More than the Metabolic Syndrome (2006) (0)
- METABOLIC CONSEQUENCES OF SUBMAXIMAL EXERCISE DURING ALTITUDE AND COLD STRESS: 368 (1980) (0)
- on tachykinin-induced cysteinyl leukotriene synthesis Hyperpnea-induced bronchoconstriction is dependent (2015) (0)
- Omega-3 fatty acids and acne. Author's reply (2003) (0)
- The Role of Cow’s Milk Consumption in Breast Cancer Initiation and Progression (2023) (0)
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