All the time I read articles about how being healthy is healthy. As if a person doesn’t know what is healthy. Not being healthy is something to do. Instead of just being healthy one has to educate oneself, to learn what is healthy, and put it into practice. There’s so much more to do it seems when we are not healthy. I guess being healthy is boring. No?
Well I sincerely hope not, but that is the spin I get from it. I read day in and day out about how one practice or another, one healthy thing – eating a certain food, engaging in a certain practice, etc. – has benefits.
What are we? Does it not stand to reason that, as a human being – as a living organism which lives in a world, has a body, has a mind, can distinguish between things, and has an inherent interest in maintaining its well-being – that we already know what the most healthy things are?
If that were not the case it would be very strange. If we were some type of being which had all the attributes mentioned above and were not inherently capable of knowing what is healthy, what is good for us, it would be an anomaly.
For this particular instance I’m reading an article about how diet affects brain health, how eating a good diet essentially protects our brains, while eating a poor diet harms them.
How many articles must one read before one simply understands that being healthy is healthy? How much affirmation does one need?
I want to stop reading these articles. What benefit is there from reading them? I think that I should already know how to choose in my life and have cultivated the skill and discipline to make the right choices, at least for very essential things like the food I put into my mouth every day. I should believe in myself. Not believing in myself is not healthy.
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