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

Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 7 a.m.

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Shermer and de Salcedo discuss: her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age 27 \\u2022 her long-term psychological strategy for living with a serious illness \\u2022 what \\u201ceating like a pig\\u201d actually means \\u2022 our 70-year-old \\u201cdiet detour\\u201d \\u2022 the obesity crisis \\u2022 how dietary studies are conducted \\u2022 the baseline health of lab rats \\u2022 static vs. dynamic metabolism \\u2022 diseases you can treat, manage, or prevent with exercise \\u2022 cholesterol and statins \\u2022 why exercise is more important than diet \\u2022 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\\u2019s 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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