The Effects of Exercise Versus Diet

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It's deep human nature. We want to make it something that we and control, and that we can say, oh, that's not going to happen to me. The easier diet thing is absolutely i mean, i think exercise is a difficult a sort of therap to embrace. And the other important thing is that the effects are so am diverse and a multitudinous that, you it is really impossible to replicate with anything else.

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.