Should I Take a Tanton or Not?

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I ask everybody that deals with this on the budcastno, should i take a tanton or not? I'm very conflicted about this. My father died of a heard attack at 61. His brother died of a hard attack at 60. Whone, his father dies of a hard atack 61. The moment i tell my docks thas, they goo, my god, you're takin a statton. Cause i was right. Like, i rat 200, which used to be ok, but then they lowered it from two, 20 to 200. All cluster, all andit was slightly high on the bad cluster all,. And the good cluster all was as ok,

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.