Are You Going to Eat Vegetables All Day Long?

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There's this kind of debate about whether it's better to just eat mostly a plant base diet, or can you just eat whatever you want? What are your thoughts on those studies in that debate? It depends on your lands. I think om line is, it's just not as important as your physical activitye and i'm not here to advocate one diet over another. E, we're recording this right after nova.

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.