I'm Not Going to Take a Staton Anymore.

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i can't tell if this has anything to do with me personally. It's just kind of statistical demographic epepidemi, logical type argument. My dad smoked ops, as he called them, other people's cigarettes. So you can say, i don't smoke, and then you borrow, borrowd somebody's cigaret. And no, he didn't exercise. That seems completely ent from me. But because physicians have in their formulamasls or diagnoses, is in a kind of family history,. There's got to be a genetic component, surely, to longevity and incardio vascular stuff. Yes, so, but it seems like it could be overridden.

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.