290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Shermer and de Salcedo discuss: her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age 27 • her long-term psychological strategy for living with a serious illness • what "eating like a pig" actually means • our 70-year-old "diet detour" • the obesity crisis • how dietary studies are conducted • the baseline health of lab rats • static vs. dynamic metabolism • diseases you can treat, manage, or prevent with exercise • cholesterol and statins • why exercise is more important than diet • how you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Anastacia Marx de Salcedo is a food writer whose work has appeared in Salon, Slate, the Boston Globe, and Gourmet magazine and on PBS and NPR blogs. She's worked as a public health consultant, news magazine publisher, and public policy researcher. She is the author of Combat-Ready Kitchen and lives in Boston, MA.
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