The Healthy Deviant

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 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