The Relationship Between Diet and Exercise

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In the pilot studies, and in om the seven country study, keys and his colleagues were trying to collect some data on physical activityand they did. But at the time, because many occupations were quite physically active, on the tended to do it. And distorted the diet side. So this distortion really became the foundation, i think, a for for our understanding of the of the relative importance of diet versus exercise.

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.