What Are the Benefits of Arobic Exercise?

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Exercising at a intense level creates stronger mitochondrial networks and increases the amounts of the creation of different types of molecules, which actually clear inflammation. In that process, it puts in to place a bunch of little shifts that end up creating a health at the cellular level. Arobic exercise is when your heart rate is elevated for an extended period of time. It's really this incredible speeding up of your body's metabolic processes.

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.