It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially
It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially
There is no pill. There is no 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 rapid rise of "lifestyle diseases" like diabetes and heart disease in America, scientists have conducted a whopping 500,000 studies of diet and 300,000 of obesity. Journalists have written 223,000,000 and 15,600,000 news articles respectively about the topics. Yet nothing seems to halt the epidemic. It's clear a new approach is needed. 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. 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 from these-no matter what we eat. She starts by chronicling her own medical miracle-she has multiple sclerosis, but discovered that daily exercise keeps it from progressing. And n
