The Origins of the Snacking Ration

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World were two had such a huge impact on the world, because there was this massive shift in a what we did. One of the things that happened during those years was that people began smoking a lot more. And so one of the impacts was that their colestral dropped tremendously. After the war, a keys is like, ok, that's really interesting. People are having this problem with no heart disease and high collestral you i know about this because in this ation, experiments, ar cluster all drop. So i'm going to start looking at the impact of diet on cardio vascular health.

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.