The Healthy Deviant
The Healthy Deviant Want to be healthy in an unhealthy world? The answer: a sick society. Get ready to start breaking some rules.This convention-busting book explains how, equipping you with the…
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The Healthy Deviant
Want to be healthy in an unhealthy world? The answer: a sick society. Get ready to start breaking some rules.This convention-busting book explains how, equipping you with the counterintuitive skills you need to transform your body and your life for the better.Here, award-winning health journalist Pilar Gerasimo points out that in an unhealthy society like ours, becoming and staying a healthy person requires choices, habits, and attitudes so unconventional, they amount to a form of positive social deviance.After all, what kind of society makes being healthy so difficult that only a single-digit percentage of the population can pull it off?
It means bucking a lot of your society's norms and And within a sick society--one where illness, anxiety, and depression are the prevailing norms --what does it mean to be one of the few people to beat those unhealthy odds?