We are endlessly compelled to listen to what is healthy and unhealthy, and it seems that the advice is constantly changing. The dietary advice offered by doctors a few decades ago would probably seen as (quite literally) a recipe for disaster today, and perhaps today’s advice will fare no better with the passage of time.
We have, perhaps, gone too far. It seems to me that we are taking ‘healthy living’ all a bit too seriously. I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t take care of our health, but to worry about it excessively, to spend too much of our time thinking about it and to make ourselves miserable in the process is just as unhealthy as not taking any trouble to look after ourselves.
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