How Much Angels Fit on the Head of a Pin?

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The lack of a physical activity is affecting our fellow you know, our cats and dogs and horses and mice. So that's why i'm trying to look at that through animals. And for a laboratory mouse, they're kept in a very small shoe bo called so, like a shoe box cage. The reason why is that really by kind of widenning my lens and looking at um, you know, o a, the lack of of a physicalactivity is affecting us.

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.