We have a moral obligation to seek health. Obviously, we want to “be healthy”, but making a reasonable effort to find out what that means can seem tedious. And just when we’re sure coffee prevents Alzheimer’s, the next study connects it to adrenal fatigue. Why bother?
Because many things are better understood than coffee. Health is strongly connected to certain lifestyle choices and preventable disease is expensive–to us and the healthcare system. It’s also stressful on friends and family. Therein lies our duty to make a reasonable effort to be healthy.
Who Has Time For That?
Since we can’t all be scientists we need certain people to study nutrition and share what they discover in an unbiased way. I’d die from boredom in a lab, but I love reading studies to learn the effects of how we eat, sleep, and move. That’s my “reasonable effort”. This blog is for those of you who have other passions. Only you can judge how much time you should spend seeking health. Your reasonable effort might be an occasional walk, a Google search for ‘are carbs bad’, or even an n=1 experiment (more on that later). Each of these are effective first steps on a potentially life-saving path. I’m happy to read the studies, translate them into common language, and let you decide if it’s really worth eating kale. That gives you more time to spend contributing to society using your unique strengths. That’s the “healthy mob” mentality. The nerds do the science. I find it. You apply it.