The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World

A RADICAL APPROACH TO WELLNESS: This self-help book rejects 'one-size-fits-all' dieting and health advice to offer practical strategies for getting healthy-your way. What kind of society makes being healthy and happy so difficult that only a small percentage of the population can pull it off? 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 meansbucking 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 probablybreaking 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. Gerasimo's 14-day Healthy-Deviant Adventure Program presents a series of powerful perspective shifts and simple daily practices-plus illustrations, infographics, worksheets, reminders, and progress tracking tools-that put you firmly back in charge of your own wellbeing. 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. …