The Healthy Deviant
Want to be healthy in an unhealthy world? Get ready to start breaking some rules.This convention-busting book explains how, equipping you with the counterintuitive skills you need to transform your…
Specifikacia The Healthy Deviant
Want to be healthy in an unhealthy world? 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? The answer: a sick society. 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? It means bucking a lot of your society's norms and