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Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse: How Food Fights Hijacked Our Health and the New Science of Exercise
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To address the rapid rise of "lifestyle diseases" like diabetes and heart disease, scientists have conducted a whopping 500,000 studies of diet and another 300,000 of obesity. Journalists have written close to 250 million news articles combined about these topics.
Yet nothing seems to halt the epidemic. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo's Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse looks not just to data-driven science, but to animals and the natural world around us for a new approach. What she finds will transform the national debate about the root causes of our most pervasive diseases and offer hope of dramatically reducing the number who suffer—no matter what they eat.
It all began with her own medical miracle—she has multiple sclerosis but has discovered that daily exercise was key to keeping it from progressing. And now, new research backs up her own experience. This revelation prompted Marx de Salcedo to ask what would happen if people with lifestyle illnesses put physical activity front and center in their daily lives?
Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse takes us on a fascinating journey that weaves together true confessions, mad(ish) scientists, and beguiling animal stories. Marx de Salcedo shows that we need to move beyond our current diet-focused model to a new, dynamic concept of metabolism as regulated by exercise. Suddenly the answer to good health is almost embarrassingly simple. Don't worry about what you eat. Worry about how much you move.
In a few years' time, adhering to a finicky Keto, Paleo, low-carb, or any other special diet to stay healthy will be as antiquated as using Daffy's Elixir or Dr. Bonker's Celebrated Egyptian Oil—popular "medicines" from the 1800s—to cure disease. And just as the 19th-century health revolution was based on a new understanding that the true cause of malaria, tuberculosis, and cholera was microorganisms, so the coming 21st-century one will be based on our new understanding that exercise is the only way to metabolic health. Fascinating and brilliant, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse is primed to usher in that new era.
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- ISBN: 9781643138367
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- ISBN: 9781643138367
- File size: 2596 KB
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- English
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June 1, 2022
Despite its flamboyant title, the thesis of this book is sound: regular physical activity is more important for good health and longevity than your weight and diet. Yet according to one survey, 80 percent of Americans don't exercise or play recreational sports. Marx de Salcedo denounces ""the false prophets of diet-focused health."" She constructs her case for exercise's crucial role in interviews with researchers and experts and briefly reviews relevant information on nutrition, metabolism, and aerobic fitness. One exercise physiologist proclaims, ""that it is far better to be fit than it is to be thin."" Marx de Salcedo integrates a considerable amount of personal narrative (the onset of her multiple sclerosis symptoms, her family's experience with the COVID-19 pandemic) into the science writing. Chubby indoor cats, rodents used in scientific experiments, ""buff"" nematodes, ultramarathon-running horses, busy bats, and other animals are featured. As a population, we generally move much too little and eat too copiously, an unfortunate formula for developing chronic diseases and shortened lives. Regular exercise enhances physical and mental health. The benefits of simply moving your body are potentially life-changing.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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