The Good News About What's Bad for You . . . The Bad News About What's Good for You
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Eat more steak, drink more whiskey, take more naps, lay off all the kale, and throw out your multivitamins and standing desk. In The Good News About What's Bad For You...The Bad News About What's Good for You author Jeff Wilser shares all the research that allows you to celebrate all your vices and stop feeling bad about not brushing your teeth after eating that extra slice of cake.
This book has two sides to it: one sharing all the good news, then the flip side contains all the bad news, making this the perfect gift that people will want to share and commiserate over with friends.
Told with wit, charm, and a large dose of humor, the author sprints through a broad range of topics-from coffee to green tea, tequila to Vitamin Water, to apologizing and swearing. Wilser sifts through each study to reveal everything from the merits of procrastination to the downsides of yoga.
In an age where so many people bend over backwards in pursuit of the most healthy and "pure" lifestyle, The Good News/The Bad News reminds readers to stop denying yourself pleasure and brings back to the tried-and-true golden rule of "everything in moderation."
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In this "two books in one" volume, Wilser (The Maxims of Manhood) covers a wide range of topics, devoting the first part to the good news about food and drink (from gluten to gin), bad habits (profanity, gossip, messiness), vices and diversions (pot, porn), and bad mind-sets (stress, selfishness). Throughout, Wilser weighs the pros, cons, trade-offs, and risks of these behaviors, digging deeply into current research and using interviews with various experts to prove or disprove conventional wisdom. Cautioning that he's a reporter, not a physician, Wilser also dives into more serious subjects, such as the efficacy of yearly mammograms. Journaling his way through two brief cleanses one, the more traditional, consisting largely of juice, and the other simply cutting out junk food (he lost weight on both) Wisner concludes that moderation is best and "excess is the enemy." Readers can flip the book over to glean the "bad news" from pithy sections on food and beverages (from kale to diet soda), healthy habits (homework, meditation), and fitness (standing desks, ball chairs.) Anyone fascinated by health-related research studies and surprising factoids (people who suffer cardiovascular events tend to consume too little sodium, not too much) will be amply entertained and informed by Wilser's lively compendium.
