Big Idea Daily | The Healthy Deviant
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A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy Worldby Pilar Gerasimo |
“A Healthy Deviant is any person who willingly defies unhealthy norms and conventions in order to achieve a high level of vitality, resilience, and autonomy."PILAR GERASIMO |
BIG IDEA #1
The Unhealthy Default Reality
FROM THE BOOK“Research published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings reveals that 97.3 percent of us aren’t managing to maintain even four of the most basic habits required for long-term health.
The four habits considered in this research were:
It’s wild to think that only a single-digit percentage of U.S. adults (2.7 percent!) is managing to do these essential, self-preserving things. But wait, it gets worse, because the research looking at those four supposedly basic health habits did not even begin to consider a number of other lifestyle factors that studies have shown to be equally important (or potentially even more important) to our health. Those factors include:
The science is clear: Regardless of how well you eat, even if you exercise regularly, don’t smoke, and maintain a healthy body composition, if you don’t get enough deep sleep, don’t manage stress, and don’t have a supportive community, you are going to be at much higher risk for getting sick and depressed. You are also dramatically more likely to die early.”
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Brian's Notes
So... Yah...
That’s from Part 1: “The Crazy That Passes for Normal,” Chapter 1: “Welcome, Rule Breaker” in which we get introduced to some stats on just how unhealthy our society is.
Get this.
50% of U.S. adults are diagnosed with a chronic illness.
68% are overweight or obese.
70% are taking at least one prescription drug. (For folks over 60, the average is FIVE.)
80% are mentally or emotionally “not flourishing.”
97.3% are not maintaining healthy habits: decent nutrition, adequate exercise, not smoking, healthy body composition.
Which leads us to Pilar’s guess that 99% are not healthy, happy or on track to stay that way.
Which leads us to one big sad face.
Which leads us to what she calls the “Unhealthy Default Reality” of our modern culture.
Which leads us to the need for the book and the subject of our next Big Idea…
Big Ideas
01: UNHEALTHY DEFAULT REALITY
02: HEALTHY DEVIANCE
03: RENEGADE RITUALS
04: DITCH YOUR DIET
05: SOMETHING WRONG?
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI |
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