(The Hedgehog Review) – The health consumer and the illusion of control.

Did you know that we can take charge of our health? I myself had not realized this. I had thought that health was a force that mostly percolated along on its own, trickling like a stream through the woods of life and emptying, someday, into the sea of death. I had thought that the joys of health—strength, sensuality, sports—naturally kept us rolling along; if not, we met with rocky pangs of dissipation.

That was primitive of me. The river of our being does not glide at its own will. We govern its flow, in two ways. (Read More)