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Eat like a pig, run like a horse : how food fights hijacked our health and the new science of exercise / Anastacia Marx de Salcedo.

by Marx de Salcedo, Anastacia.

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Pegasus Books, 2022.

Physical fitness -- Health aspects.

Exercise -- Health aspects.

Exercise -- Physiological aspects.

Diet -- Health aspects.

Essays -- 21st century.

American essays -- 21st century.

9781643138350 (hc.)

Alternate title:

How food fights hijacked our health and the new science of exercise

1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.

xv, 288 pags ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.

"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..."--From publisher.

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