The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World
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- Synopsis
- What kind of society makes being healthy and happy so difficult that only a single-digit percentage of the population can hope to 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 rejecting a lot of its conventional health prescriptions. It also means acknowledging a disturbing truth: If you aren&’t breaking the rules, you&’re probably breaking yourself. That&’s the simple, provocative philosophy behind The Healthy Deviant, one seasoned health journalist&’s 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. 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.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781623174262
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781623174255
- Publisher:
- North Atlantic Books
- Date of Addition:
- 02/19/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Pilar Gerasimo
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Self-Help, Health, Mind and Body
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.