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There is no magic pill. There is no perfect diet. Could it be that
our underlying assumption-that what we're eating is making us fat
and sick-is just plain wrong? 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.
Taking in turn a scientific, feminist, economic and public-health
perspective, this book gleefully demolishes much of the received
wisdom surrounding processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues
that most of these foods are fairly healthy, and their consumption
is an undisputed boon to women's equality, since women still bear
disproportionate responsibility for home and children. Alternate
food systems are doomed to be small-scale and unproductive, and can
even harm economies as a whole. Can we blame processed food for the
worldwide increase in obesity when the role of sedentary lifestyles
has not been fully investigated? The author concludes by embracing
packaged and preserved edibles in her larder, and encourages the
reader to do the same.
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