Who is Responsible for Your Health? (6)

Others may be responsible for your health in the sense that they contribute to its success or demise, but your instincts are right: you are the one human responsible for your health in the sense of personally caring about it and controlling its fate.

If you really care to optimize your weight, fight and prevent disease, have more energy, and live longer, this means far more than getting physician check-ups or reading nutrition labels. It means examining all the habits and perceptions that may be negatively affecting your health but that you take for granted, and then tracing these habits and perceptions back to their sources.

It means delving into the motivations of those sources, and as necessary, abandoning their plan for you in favor of your own.

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