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Laurie Taylor talks to Ann Murcott, Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of London about the origins and development of food packaging, from tin cans and glass jars to bottles and plastic trays. How central is packaging to global food systems and should we be concerned about wasteful packaging ? Also, Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, offers a spirited defence of processed food from a feminist, economic, and public-health perspective.Producer: Jayne Egerton

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On episode 87 of Outside The Studio: It can be easy to think, "If I go on a diet, then I can get away with not putting in the work of exercising," however, that isn't the key to a truly healthy life. Tessa Tovar and Anastacia Marx de Salcedo chat about Anastacia's new book, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse and what it looks like to balance diet and proper exercise. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo is an author of several works, including Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse. She works as a public health consultant and has done stints as a newsmagazine publisher and public policy researcher. Timestamps (01:40) Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse (03:40) Anastacia's journey with MS (09:10) Perfect diet culture and exercise (14:30) Swimming to running (17:35) Sauna vs exercise (22:45) Sedentary lifestyles (29:00) How much is enough? (32:50) Always hungry (36:35) Daily food intake (41:00) Sugary drinks (42:30) BMI (45:00) Exercise routine (48:35) The future of health Key Takeaways 1. Many people may take the approach that they can have a decent diet but not exercise often, however, this isn't an ideal plan for proper health. "Eat like a pig and run like a horse," means that if you eat a mediocre diet, then you better run like a horse, because movement and exercise are more important in our overall health than our food intake. 2. Sedentary lifestyles are easily made by our TVs and other devices. Having a routine, especially daily, will help break that pattern and encourage better exercise habits. Anastacia runs four miles a day, but she didn't get that magic number from anywhere, it just felt right. Finding an activity that fits with your preferences will help build that routine. 3. Diet fads are always trending, from vegan to keto to paleo and so on. But, there is no right answer, especially when there isn't going to be a one-size-fits-all. Finding a balance with proper nutrients that fit your body and activities is the best solution. Connect with Anastacia Marx de Salcedo Website: http://anastaciamarxdesalcedo.com/ Book: http://anastaciamarxdesalcedo.com/about-eat-like-a-pig-run-like-a-horse/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anastaciamdes/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/combatkitchen Connect with Tessa Tovar Website: https://tessatovar.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBenedicktus

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo: “Let exercise be thy medicine.” Anastacia, a nonfiction writer and author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how regular exercise has the ability to transform your health, even if you subscribe to a not-so-balanced eating plan. For the record, we still believe that health begins on one's plate—but exercise may be way more important than we thought. In this episode, they cover: - Anastacia's personal health journey (~00:58) - Anastacia's personal nutrition philosophy (~06:14) - The military's influence around food shelf-life (~08:43) - Why exercise is the ultimate elixir for health (~13:20) - The most reasonably healthy processed foods (~20:00) - Why nutrition science is not as concrete as we thought (~22:58) - Why we shouldn't overlook exercise for overall well-being (~34:10) - How exercise benefits every function of the body (~39:02) - The ultimate exercise diet (~43:05) - What we can learn from studies on cats & bats (~45:25) - Why traditional doctors don't talk enough about exercise & nutrition (~56:49) - How Anastacia ranks exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle habits (~01:04:08) - How Anastacia uses running as a tool for self-care (~01:09:30) - Anastacia's biggest wellness pet peeve (~01:12:01) - How exercise has helped Anastacia's MS journey (~01:14:09) - How to exercise your way out of a subpar diet (~01:16:54) - Sex differences on the impact of physical activity (~01:20:00)  Referenced in the episode: - Anastacia's book, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse. - Anastacia's previous book, Combat-Ready Kitchen. - Check out Anastacia's website. - Read more about Ancel Keys & the link between diet & heart disease. - Glenn Gaesser's BMI study. - Learn more about The Jackson Laboratory. - A study on fitness level & COVID outcomes. - The Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC). - mbg Podcast episode #192 with Terry Wahls, M.D. Take 20% off our holiday collection with code HOLIDAY20. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com.

Hello Well Women; Happy November. On Show this week, I interview Anastacia Marx de Salcedo. She is a nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Salon, Slate, Vice, and on PBS and NPR blogs. She has worked as a public health consultant, news magazine publisher, and public policy researcher. She is the author of Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat, also published in Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese, and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.We discuss:The idea that physical activity is more important than diet for healthThe important message that you CAN be healthy at any size as long as you get enough exercise, despite what the marketing and media might say.Andthat every day scientists are discovering new cellular and molecular impacts of physical activity, including that it elevates mood, relieves stress, and has a powerful anti-inflammatory effect. We're all learning together.Get the 2023 Love & Leadership Planner brought to you by The Well Woman Showhttp://wellwomanlife.com/plannerAs always, all the links and information are at wellwomanlife.com/299showThe Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.

Mark Malkoff - Johnny Carson Podcast The Not Old Better Show Art of Living Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show interview series on radio and podcast. Today's show is brought to you by Amazon Pharmacy. Yes, that Amazon. Amazon Pharmacy delivers a better pharmacy experience that delivers directly to your door and works with most insurance plans.  I'm Paul Vogelzang, and for all of us in The Not Old Better Show audience who remember fondly the Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson, you'll love today's guest. Thank you so much for listening.  We've got a great guest today, whom I'll introduce in just a moment…But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 668th episode, and we spoke to Smithsonian Associate and author, researcher and scientist, Dr. Sian Harding, who's written the new book, The Exquisite Machine, The New Science of the Heart. Two weeks ago, I spoke with author, and inspiring speaker diet expert, Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, about her new book, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse.  Wonderful stuff…If you missed those shows, you can go back and check them out along with my entire back-catalog of shows, all free for you there on our website, NotOld-Better.com…and if you leave a review, we will read it at the end of each show…leave reviews on Apple Podcasts for us. We're listening to the Tonight Show theme, which played nightly in the bedrooms of American households and was hosted for many, many years by the popular Johnny Carson.   Our guest today, to walk down memory lane with us, Is Mark Malkoff… Mark Malkoff talks with us today about legendary talk show host Johnny Carson. Mark Malkoff hosts the popular podcast “The Carson Podcast.” Mark's guests include stand-up comics who debuted on the Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson, individuals that worked on the show, frequent guests, and top entertainers that were influenced by Carson, like Jonathan Winters. The podcast is available at www.carsonpodcast.com  We will talk about all that and more with Mark Malkoff, who is a comedian and filmmaker himself. He has been featured on the "Today Show,” "Good Morning America,” CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Mashable, NPR's “Weekend Edition,” BBC, and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast comedian Mark Malkoff.   Our review today is from Arlene B. Medina gave the show a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts. 09/29/2022 Arlene Medina says “The Not Old Better Show is One of the best.” Every time I hear it, it feels new. An amazing show and episodes that touch the heart. My thanks to Arlene Medina and all of you for your wonderful ratings…they mean a LOT, so please keep it up.  My thanks to the Amazon Pharmacy team for all they do to support the show.  Please support our sponsors, who in turn support the show…check out Amazon Pharmacy in our show notes today.  My thanks to Mark Malkoff for his generous time and for his wonderful sense of humor. My thanks to you, my wonderful Not Old Better Show audience on radio and podcast.  Please be well, and be safe, which I'm telling you each show, followed by my message to eliminate assault rifles. Only members of the military use these weapons.  Assault rifles are killing our children and grandchildren in the very places they learn: school.  Let's do better.  Let's talk about better.  The Not Old Better Show Inside Science interview series on radio and podcast.  Thanks, everybody, and we'll see you next week.  

Dr. Sian Harding - The Exquisite Machine The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Series Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science interview series on radio and podcast.   I'm Paul Vogelzang and for all of us in The Not Old Better Show audience who are heart-healthy, heart aware, and who want more information about the most important organ in our body, today's Inside Science interview is just for you. Thank you so much for listening.  We've got a great guest today, whom I'll introduce in just a moment…But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 667th episode, and I spoke to author Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, who's written the excellent book about diet and health, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse: How Food Fights Hijacked Our Health and the New Science of Exercise. That is a great title, and it's a great interview.  Two weeks ago, in another great interview, I spoke to Smithsonian Associate and host of the popular PBS series “Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi”.   Wonderful stuff…If you missed those shows, you can go back and check them out along with my entire back-catalog of shows, all free for you there on our website, NotOld-Better.com…and if you leave a review, we will read it at the end of each show…leave reviews on Apple Podcasts for us. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.  Elon Musk We will learn today about what a good heart is…Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day—if you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decades of effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the heart's perfect engineering. We all take our hearts for granted…but not our guest today. Smithsonian Associate Dr. Sian Harding, a world leader in cardiac research, explores the relationship between emotions and heart function, revealing that the heart not only responds to our emotions but it also creates them as well. Dr. Harding will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up via Zoom, and you'll find all the details on our website.   Drawing from her new book The Exquisite Machine, Dr. Harding tells us about the evolutionary forces that have shaped the heart's response to damage, the astonishing rejuvenating power of stem cells, how we can avoid heart disease, and why it can be so hard to repair a damaged heart. Dr. Harding will also share how cutting-edge technologies are enabling experiments and clinical trials that will lead to new solutions to curing the world's leading cause of death: heart disease, data, insights, and sheer force of research numbers. That of course, is our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Dr. Sian Harding reading from her excellent new book, The Exquisite Machine Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show Inside Science interview series on radio and podcast author, scientist, and researcher Dr. Sian Harding. Nicole B. Plumley gave the podcast a 5 star rating and says:  Nicole B. Plumley 09/29/2022 Wonderful Podcast I have been listening for a long time, repeatedly. I don't know how many more times I will listen. Every time I Love This Podcast. My thanks to Nicole and all of you for your wonderful ratings…they mean a LOT, so please keep it up.  My thanks to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show.  My thanks to Dr. Sian Harding for her generous time, reading and answering all my questions.  My thanks to you, my wonderful Not Old Better Show audience on radio and podcast.  Please be well, and be safe, which I'm telling you each show, followed by my message to eliminate assault rifles. Only members of the military use these weapons.  Assault rifles are killing our children and grandchildren in the very places they learn: school.  Let's do better.  Let's talk about better.  The Not Old Better Show Inside Science interview series on radio and podcast.  Thanks, everybody, and we'll see you next week.   Smithsonian Associates site details:  https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/exquisite-machine-heart

Eat Like A Pig, Run Like A Horse - Anastacia Marx de Salcedo The Not Old Better Show Author Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show author interview series on radio and podcast. Today's show is brought to you by Archives.com Archives.com is your one-stop shop for access to more than 11 billion records essential to family history. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and for all of us in The Not Old Better Show audience who think about our diet, worry about our diet and spend too much time thinking about what we eat, today's guest will help us with those subjects and give us hope about how we can address diet, wellness and exercise.   Thank you so much for listening.  We've got a great guest today, whom I'll introduce in just a moment…But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 666th episode, and we spoke to Smithsonian Associate and host of the popular PBS series “Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi”.  Two weeks ago, I spoke with  author, inspiring speaker and writer Cynthia Covey Haller about her new book, written with her father, Stephen R. Covey, Live Life In Crescendo. Wonderful stuff…If you missed those shows, you can go back and check them out along with my entire back-catalog of shows, all free for you there on our website, NotOld-Better.com…and if you leave a review, we will read it at the end of each show…leave reviews on Apple Podcasts for us. Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse: How Food Fights Hijacked Our Health and the New Science of Exercise. That is a great title, and it's a great title to the new book by our guest today, Anastacia Marx de Salcedo  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…and moving can overcome, even overwhelm the most disgusting conditions. That of course is our guest today author Anastacia Marx de Salcedo reading from her excellent new book, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse: How Food Fights Hijacked Our Health and the New Science of Exercise.  Join us as we discuss the book, deworming, and the fact that 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?   Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast, author and science writer Anastacia Marx de Salcedo. Our review today is from Mabel Wheeler, dated 09/28/22, and Mabel Wheeler says: The Not Old Better show is a Valuable Show The Not Old Better Show is a very nice podcast. After a long time of searching, I heard an indescribably beautiful show. It felt very good finally. Looking forward to presenting me with more beautiful episodes in the coming days. Thank you, Mabel, and my thanks to Anastacia Marx de Salcedo for her generous time today and please check out our show notes for more details about Anastacia Marx de Salcedo's other books and information. My thanks to Archives.com for sponsoring today's episode.  Please check out our website for more details about Archives.com Uncovering your family's history is simple and affordable at Archives.com.  My thanks to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show.  My thanks to Anastacia Marx de Salcedo for her generous time, reading and answering all my questions.  My thanks to you, my wonderful Not Old Better Show audience on radio and podcast.  Please be well, and be safe, which I'm telling you each show, followed by my message to eliminate assault rifles. Only members of the military use these weapons.  Assault rifles are killing our children and grandchildren in the very places they learn: school.  Let's do better.  Let's talk about better.  The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast.  Thanks, everybody, and we'll see you next week.  

Shermer and de Salcedo discuss: her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age 27 • her long-term psychological strategy for living with a serious illness • what “eating like a pig” actually means • our 70-year-old “diet detour” • the obesity crisis • how dietary studies are conducted • the baseline health of lab rats • static vs. dynamic metabolism • diseases you can treat, manage, or prevent with exercise • cholesterol and statins • why exercise is more important than diet • how you can have your cake and eat it, too. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo is a food writer whose work has appeared in Salon, Slate, the Boston Globe, and Gourmet magazine and on PBS and NPR blogs. She's worked as a public health consultant, news magazine publisher, and public policy researcher. She is the author of Combat-Ready Kitchen and lives in Boston, MA.

This week we honor all our servicemen and women by reading books related to Veteran’s Day.  What a blessing it is to live in this country, and we owe our freedom to those who serve and protect.  Join us as we discuss two amazing reads, Combat-Ready Kitchen by Anastacia Marx de Salcedo and The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior by Robert O’Neill.  Both were fascinating dives into how the military shapes and protects our livestyle.

It’s called “the deadliest conflict in human history” for a reason. World War II engulfed the lives of soldiers and civilians in a way those in the United States have not experienced in a near capacity since.  In the final episode of our season exploring the experience of service during World War II, authors Myke Cole and Anastacia Marx de Salcedo join to help us make sense of it all: What changed the most when it comes to combat and cuisine? What part did our veterans play in moving the world forward? And where can we most find ourselves in this history? This episode includes clips from all of the veterans who have shared their stories on Service this season, and direct interviews with Cole and Marx de Salcedo. You can find more about them and links to their work and individual episodes at www.ServicePodcast.org. There, you can also leave messages for all of the veterans you hear on Service. And we’re always sharing extra audio and nerdy food history on social media - we’re @servicepodcast on Instagram and Facebook.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

For most of us, eggs are perfect packets of portable protein, and pizza is the lazy option for dinner. For the research team at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, pizza and eggs are two of the most nightmarish food-science challenges of the last fifty years—but the struggle to perfect such dishes for the military has shaped civilian meals, too. Join us this episode as we venture into the Willy Wonka-style labs where the U.S. Army is developing the rations of the future, and then take a trip to the supermarket with author Anastacia Marx de Salcedo to see how military R&D has made much of the food on our grocery store shelves longer-lasting, more portable, and convenient—and, yes, more highly processed too.

“Nobody can soldier without coffee,” a Union calvary man wrote in 1865. Hidden Kitchens looks at three American wars through the lens of coffee: the Civil War, Vietnam and Afghanistan. And an interview with Anastacia Marx de Salcedo author of “Combat Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat.” The Civil War:  War, freedom, slavery, secession, union – these are some of the big themes you might expect to find in the diaries of Civil War soldiers. At least, that’s what Jon Grinspan, a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, assumed when he began digging through war journals in the nation’s Civil War archives. “I went looking for the big stories,” Grinspan says. “And all they kept talking about was the coffee they had for breakfast, or the coffee they wanted to have for breakfast.” The Vietnam War:  Coffee may have powered the Union army during the Civil War, but during the Vietnam War, it fueled the GI anti-war movement. In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, as soldiers returning from Vietnam began to question the U.S. role in the war, GI coffeehouses sprung up in military towns outside bases across the country. They became a vital gathering place. Oleo Strut, Fort Hood, TX, Shelter Half, Tacoma, Washington, the Green Machine outside Camp Pendleton, San Diego; Mad Anthony Wayne’s, Waynesville, Mo., outside Fort Leonard, to name a few. As the anti-war movement heated up, these coffeehouses became places where GIs could get legal counseling on issues like going AWOL and obtaining conscientious objector status, and learn about ways to protest the war. Afghanistan: “ The military runs on coffee,” says Harrison Suarez, co-founder of Compass Coffee in Washington DC. “The Marines especially. It’s this ritual.” Suarez and Michael Haft, who started Compass together, first became friends in the Marines over coffee learning how to navigate with a map and compass. As the war in Afghanistan intensified, both Suarez and Haft deployed there with the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. One of their missions was to help develop the local police force and army. The two men tried to bond with their new Afghan partners over coffee, but the Afghans weren’t having it. The Afghan culture is much more about tea. Regardless of what was in the cups, the experience of gathering together over a hot drink and “taking time to develop a rapport with your partners that you are fighting alongside holds the same.” This story is part of the Hidden Kitchens series “Kimchi Diplomacy: War and Peace and Food.”

This week, we're looking at how food -- and the containers it comes in -- have changed over time, and some of the factors that have influenced these changes. We'll speak with Anastacia Marx de Salcedo about her new book "Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes The Way You Eat" about the ways military needs have influenced the food we all eat. And we'll speak with statistician Patrick McKnight about the BPA controversy, and how statistics can be used and misused in scientific studies.

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo joins the Steve Fast Show to talk about the way U.S. military combat rations led to everything from Cheetos to the McRib. #WWII #supermarket

Host Dave Robertson is joined first by Karel Zimmermann, Markets Director for the Americas of the Puratos Corporation. From finding ways to improve texture to creating convenience through frozen products, Karel takes Dave behind the scenes in the making of baked goods. Plus, Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, author of "Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat," talks to Dave about the history of processed foods. Hear the entertaining take of how the food in your pantry links to military research and the diet of a soldier.

As you sit around the dining room table this week with family and friends, giving thanks and enjoying roasted turkey, creamy mashed potatoes and warm stuffing, here’s something to keep in mind: Some of that food you’re chowing down might have originated in a military lab. Every once in awhile we like to re-run one of our more popular episodes, and this is one of those occasions. Enjoy listening—or re-listening—to our conversation with Anastacia Marx de Salcedo about her book, “Combat Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat.”

One of the more important places for the modern Southern (and American) diet may be... an obscure army base in Natick, Massachusetts. The Combat Feeding Directorate looks just like any other suburban office park, but it's an origin point for many of the processed foods that find their way onto our grocery store shelves. In this episode of Gravy, Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, author of "Combat Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat," takes host Tina Antolini along on an investigation of how the military's food engineering research for combat rations has filtered down to the food we civilians eat.

Megan Kimble -- that's her on the left -- is a young journalist in Tucson, Arizona. Back in 2012, she set out to stick it to the processed food man, by eating only unprocessed food for a year. Her book Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food tells the whole story. It's odd that two books that have at their core the prevalence of processed food came out within a month of one another, but while Anastacia Marx de Selcado explains how it is that the US military came to occupy supermarket shelves, Megan Kimble simply wants nothing to do with processed foods. Her reasons boil down to taking control of what she eats and boosting the local economy. Along the way she discovers she can't really do without chocolate, so she learns to make her own. Notes Megan Kimble has a website.

We sit down with Anastacia Marx de Salcedo to discuss how the military influences the food in our pantries.

Have you ever stopped to wonder what drives the incessant innovation in processed food? Who thought that an energy bar would be a good thing to exist? What was the logic that drove the development of the cheese-flavoured powder that coats so many snacks? Even instant coffee; why was that needed? The answer to all these questions, and many more, can be traced back to the US Army’s Natick Center, outside Boston, Massachusetts. That is where the Combat Feeding Directorate of the US army, with the help of academics and large food processing companies, designs the rations that sustain American soldiers and much of the rest of America and the world. Soldiers need rations that are lightweight, that don’t spoil over time, and that can withstand some pretty brutal handling. The rest of us pay for the same. Author Anastacia Marx de Selcado’s book Combat-Ready Kitchen, published in early August, lifts the lid on how the army has invaded almost all aspects of processed food. Notes Combat-Ready Kitchen is available from Amazon and elsewhere. If you buy from that link, I get a tiny pittance. Anastacia Marx de Selcado has a website, of course. The banner photograph shows a high pressure processing production line, © Moira Mac.