I'm a B M I, and I've Never Had a Heart Disease.

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"I'm really quite confident that that is all you need to do from a cardy of ascular perspective," he says. "If you're feeling, you know, that if you're working out five days, six days, seven days a week, then i think that would be highly aprotective for you." He has no heart disease in his family and doesn't worry about it at all. The military does not rely on bam i; they rely on circumference measurements.

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.