The Weight Loss Effects of Exercise

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The money shot in your book is this graph here. Put a little fit bit on a mouse and see if he gets his ten thousand steps a day. It's probably weigh more than that. And across the board, although its worse to be obease than it is to be overweights. Pretty much, very barely distinguishable between overweight and normal weight. But the big differenceis between fit and unfit. That seems like pretty clear evidence.

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.