Cancel your gym membership and come off the Paleo diet. Your basic human needs are all catered for, and life is too short to spend in the pursuit of longevity
Do you ever learn about health from the media? I do. Here are some things I’ve seen recently. “How to engineer maximum deliciousness, pack in nutrients, increase sustainability, and build crazy food mashups.” But this is rather distant from my goal of eating when hungry. “More than 90% of us don’t get enough potassium.” But enough potassium for what? “Great Sleep Tonight: Pro Secrets, Revealed.” I had not known anyone slept professionally.
One would be more likely to blink at these follies if we were not so surrounded by nonstop fatuities in the imperative voice of advertising. “Tastes so pure you’ll love it.” Does anyone know what purity tastes like? “Discover how good your body was designed to feel.” But who designed my body? “Stress less with the bestselling, multi-award-winning anti-stress drink.” Surely caring about the best, most award-winning supplement beverage is a cause of stress?
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