Health Literacy
12 articles in this pillar.
How Statura's Calculators Work: Our Formulas and Sourcing
Every formula on this site is published, named and cited. Here is where each one comes from, how we chose it, and what we do when sources disagree.
Read articleReading Health Research: A Short Guide for Non-Scientists
How to tell a strong study from a weak one, why headlines mislead, and the handful of questions that filter most bad health claims.
Read articleWhen to See a Doctor: Calculator Results Aren't Diagnoses
What a screening number can and cannot tell you, which results warrant a conversation, and the symptoms that shouldn't wait.
Read articleUnderstanding Metabolism: What You Can and Can't Change
What metabolism actually is, why it's less broken and less boostable than people believe, and the one component you can genuinely move.
Read articleSetting Realistic Health Goals: Trends Beat Targets
Why outcome goals fail, how to build goals around behaviours you control, and what a realistic rate of change actually looks like.
Read articleBody Composition and Longevity: What the Evidence Actually Says
Muscle mass, fitness, fat distribution and the obesity paradox. Which body measures actually track with living longer and better.
Read articleA Healthy Habits Checklist That Actually Moves the Needle
Ten habits with real evidence behind them, ranked roughly by impact — and the ones that get far more attention than they deserve.
Read articleCommon Fitness Myths, Debunked by the Evidence
Spot reduction, toning, the fat-burning zone, muscle turning to fat, and a dozen other claims that survive on repetition alone.
Read articleTracking Progress Beyond the Scale
Eight measures that show change the scale misses, how often to take them, and how to read them together.
Read articleMetric vs. US Units: How Statura Handles the Conversion
Why the same formula gives different-looking numbers in different units, the conversion factors we use, and where rounding errors creep in.
Read articleUnderstanding Your Kidney Function Test: eGFR, Creatinine and Stages
Your blood test came back with an eGFR and a stage. Here is what the number measures, why it is scaled to a body that is not yours, and when a low reading does and does not mean kidney disease.
Read articleHow Alcohol Moves Through Your Body — and Why Only Time Sobers You Up
Coffee does not work. Neither does a cold shower, a big meal afterwards, or a run. Here is what actually happens to alcohol after you drink it, and why the timeline is so much longer than most people assume.
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