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

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Introducing a radical approach to wellness: This self-help guide rejects ‘one-size-fits-all’ dieting and health advice to offer practical strategies and tools for getting healthy—your way.

What kind of society makes being healthy and happy so difficult that only a single-digit percentage of the population can hope to pull it off? The answer: 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 means bucking 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 probably breaking 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.

From the Publisher

The Healthy Deviant Hero’s Journey—What’s Your Story?

One thing our Unhealthy Default Reality does with great efficiency is convince us that we are inadequate failures and that we should expend all our energy and resources striving to become something that the Unhealthy Default Reality can accept and approve of. That experience plays out differently for each of us, but with some surprisingly similar results: stress, anxiety, insecurity, and struggle. Fortunately, if you stay the course, the experience takes a turn at some point, and for most of us, it winds up imparting some surprisingly consistent gifts: insight, skill, empowerment, and a sense of purpose. What I’ve noticed is that for a great many of us, this experience goes something like a hero’s journey…

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books; Illustrated edition (January 7, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1623174252
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1623174255
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.05 x 0.84 x 8.99 inches