“Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everyone.” “It’s not just about losing the weight.  It’s about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there.” Many people seek to lose weight.  Some are truly overweight, some are tinged by a society that values skinny over chubby, some simply feel uncomfortable in their own skin.  But, despite so many attributions to the contrary, weight loss is not always a path to better health.  People with cancer and severe chronic ill

“Tranquility can’t be grasped except by those who have reached an unwavering and firm power of judgment—the rest constantly fall and rise in their decisions, wavering in a state of alternatively rejecting and accepting things.  What is the cause of this back and forth?  It’s because nothing is clear and they rely on the most uncertain guide—common opinion.” -Seneca Medical science is typically no more than opinion, crafted by those who profit most by the proliferation of mani

“What, in the tradition of bourgeois democracy, used to be the right to health became, seemingly without anyone noticing, a...

Recently new blood pressure guidelines spread across the news and the medical world with gusto.  Orchestrated by “experts” embedded in...