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Author Marx de Salcedo, Anastacia, author.

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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2022.
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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  613.7 MARX DE SALCEDO    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  613.7 MAR    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  613.7 MA    Check Shelf
Edition First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Description xv, 288 pags ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
Contents Poster child for multiple sclerosis -- Fat cats and diabetic dogs -- The fault isn't in our food -- Meaty mice and the men and women who overfeed them -- How food fights hijacked our health -- Treadmill-trotting pigs -- Backstroke-swimming roundworms -- The man versus horse marathon -- Bats, babies, and immunity -- The exercise diet.
Summary "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" -- Publisher.
Subject Physical fitness -- Health aspects.
Exercise -- Health aspects.
Exercise -- Physiological aspects.
Diet -- Health aspects.
Health.
Diet -- Health aspects. (OCoLC)fst00893294
Exercise -- Health aspects. (OCoLC)fst00917999
Exercise -- Physiological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00918004
Health. (OCoLC)fst00952743
Physical fitness -- Health aspects. (OCoLC)fst01062580
ISBN 9781643138350 (hbk.)
1643138359 (hbk.)
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