Sublime

He spent thirty-five years experimenting with simplifying his diet.

but I’ll be recommending that you start swapping out your daily bread with butter and eggs.

He started researching how to improve endurance without overtraining and found a formula that worked: moving around a lot at a low level of activity, lifting heavy things only once in a while, and sprinting once a week. The key to endurance training, he says, is low-level training combined with occasional all-out, really hard training. That was how

Tired of feeling so lousy, she abandons the failed diet and resumes eating 2000 calories per day. Since her metabolism has slowed to an output of only 1500 calories per day, all her weight comes rushing back—as fat. Those around her silently accuse her of lacking willpower. Sound familiar? But her weight regain is not her failure. Instead, it’s to

curiosity weakens shame,

La ultramaratón parecía ser un universo paralelo donde no se aplica ninguna de las reglas que rigen el planeta Tierra: las mujeres eran más fuertes que los hombres; los más viejos eran más fuertes que los jóvenes; tipos salidos de la Edad de Piedra con sandalias eran más fuertes que cualquiera. Y eso por no hablar del millaje.

cancer. Sugar’s effects, as well as obesity, develop over decades, not days.

First, caloric intake increases in response to exercise—we just eat more following a vigorous workout.