The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World

ISBN: 1623174252

Author: Gerasimo, Pilar

Condition: Used

A RADICAL APPROACH TO WELLNESS: This self-help book rejects one-size-fits-all dieting and health advice to offer practical strategies for getting healthy-your way.What kind of society makes being healthy and happy so difficult that only a small percentage of the population can pull it off? 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 societys norms and rejecting a lot of its conventional health prescriptions. It also means acknowledging a disturbing truth: If you arent breaking the rules, youre probably breaking yourself. Thats the simple, provocative philosophy behind The Healthy Deviant, one seasoned health journalists quest to reframe healthy choices as a positive form of social rebellion.Combining hand-drawn infographics and statistics with insights from sociology, psychology, evolutionary biology, functional medicine, and the school of hard knocks, this category-defying book rejects the idea that diet and exercise alone can save us-or are even the best places to start. Gerasimos 14-day Healthy-Deviant Adventure Program presents a series of powerful perspective shifts and simple daily practices-plus illustrations, infographics, worksheets, reminders, and progress tracking tools-that put you firmly back in charge of your own wellbeing.Part manifesto, part whispered wake-up call, The Healthy Deviant is a modern-day survival guide for being a healthy person in an unhealthy world. Starting now.