What Keys Was Trying to Do With the Tobacco Industry

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During the fifties, he actually was doing the early studies, the pilot sudies for this am and at that same time, morriswaswas starting to publish the result of his work. Keys had a very ambitious vision his what he wanted to do was to try and compare the impact of different diets around the world. He found that conductors happen, no were, you know, had better, like fat ratios and n and better markers in terms of colastra and blood pressure.

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.