Is There a Relative Cause?

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A. Maybe the way to think about it is as there's a primary cause and then half a dozen mitigating conditions that lead it to go one path or another. We don't want, we want it to be external. And so maybe it's just a combination of these. How do you figure out which is the relative cause? A. One of our deeper am sot of embracebracebraces of the idea of food is being something that is causing our problems. It may be am unavoidableand it may be something that we just have to coexist with.

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.