What is Health & Wellness?

There is nothing but talk these days (to the point of nausea I might add) about "health and wellness". The new mentality seems to be a "one size-fits-all" thinking. More interesting is that the studies coming out really are not proving any greater health issues/costs for being overweight/obese than for normal weight people.

Personal lifestyle choices are under attack these days. Or rather, just a select few are under attack because the really dangerous ones people don't seem to mind since they are considered "healthy". Smokers and now the overweight/obese are being denormalized and ostracized for their personal lifestyle behaviors. The claims of higher health care costs and lost productivity are the primary driving force behind this new age of discrimination (and that is exactly what it is). The funny thing is that if you look at the so-called number of deaths and the costs you'll find them to be almost identical. It's like the war on smokers worked so well they are using the same arguments, numbers and costs and applying them to the overweight and obese. Makes you wonder who's next on the hit list of these prohibitionist puritans.

Moderation in most things is the real key to being smart and healthy. Our constitution was written to guarantee that we be allowed to choose for ourselves how best to live our lives.