How to Get the Most Out of Your Bike Races

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John Macke, the cof hofod who's been on the show. He really lives it, and he's super healthy, but he works out a lot of me. When i got into bike racing, and i lived in braa, california and orange county, I met this guy named phil granatia,. And he was quite a bit older than me, superfit. So he switched to cycling in our doing stairs. It kind of developed his cardio vascular by cycling in our did stairs. In the first five minutes, he realized, oh, i'm not actually healthy at all, at least cardio vascala. I have no cardio at all. Right

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.