Don't Worry - Be Healthy

I never made it to the treadmill today, although I did manage push-ups and situps, and a weigh-in. My usual mindset offers a choice of explanations here: either I am guilty of shirking, or guilty of something else.

So, it was encouraging to read yesterday's Well blog in the New York Times, in which Tara Parker-Pope discusses a new book by Dr. Susan M. Love entitled “Live a Little! Breaking the Rules Won’t Break Your Health.” The book is conceived as a counter to the ever-rising obsession with health, says Dr. Love, inspired by "women I kept meeting who were scared to death if they didn’t eat a cup of blueberries a day they would drop dead.”

Love and her co-author, Alice D. Domar, examined health advice on sleep, stress, prevention, nutrition, exercise and relationships. Tara Parker-Pope reports that in all six, the "biggest risks are on the extremes, and the middle ground is bigger than we think."

The piece winds up with this quotation from Dr. Love, “The point of this is to use your common sense, and if you feel good, then you’re fine,” she said. “The goal is not to get to heaven and say, ‘I’m perfect.’ It’s to use your body, have some fun and to live a little.”

Or, as QMH puts it so much more succinctly, "everything in moderation."

The Countdown to Tom King 1/2 Marathon March 13

Days until TK	Miles logged today	Comments
67	0	I'll be fine