290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse

<p>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.</p> <p>Anastacia Marx de Salcedo is a food writer whose work has appeared in <em>Salon</em>, <em>Slate</em>, the <em>Boston Globe</em>, and <em>Gourmet</em> 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 <em>Combat-Ready Kitchen</em> and lives in Boston, MA.</p>