Over the last few months, during the endurance-athletics off-season, something extraordinary happened: The line began to blur between the health effects of running marathons and eating cheeseburgers. "I'm not worried," says veteran running coach Mark Sullivan, who has run more than 150 marathons, joking that "there are guys who live to be 100 smoking cigarettes and eating cheeseburgers."
The key to overcoming your bad habits is, first, to develop some insight into their origins. New York Times "Social Q's" editor Philip Galanes and lifestyle coach Harriette Cole tackled the issue in a recent Today Show appearance.