From the time our mothers told us as kids to eat our vegetables and our middle-school physical education teachers told us to run up and down the basketball court, we have known for a long time that vegetables and exercise are good for us.
Nutrition and exercise are inextricably linked to our body weight, health, and even our mortality. However, the recommendations we hear so often to eat healthily and exercise need to be revisited because, it turns out, the subject is not as straightforward as you think.
Delving into the large body of scientific research on the subject, Dr. Jason Karp explores the impact of nutrition and exercise on four key pillars of well-being—body weight, health, mortality, and performance—to answer the provocative question on many people’s minds: Can you outrun a donut?