Welcome to The Hedonist's Guide to Ageing.
For all of my little boomer life I’ve been told that the key to living a longer, healthier life is to give up all that is delectable and work really, really hard at health and fitness. Count calories. Supplement. Eat mostly plants. But not wheat. Go vegan. Fat makes you fat. No salt! Lower your “bad” cholesterol. Exercise, exercise, exercise! Juice! And on and on goes the ever-revolving choir of “experts” in the public square.
Ignore for the moment that the litany of admonishments is shot through with contradictions and ask yourself, does such instruction make sense on its face? How did we evolve to be so fundamentally flawed that our every earthly desire is bad for us? How can any particular combination of foods and lifestyle be appropriate for everyone of all ages everywhere? What if the truth is that life needn’t be an arduous exercise in asceticism laced with regular, guilt-burdened lapses into relaxation and pleasure?
If these questions have you scratching your head, you’re in the right place.
At The Hedonist’s Guide we’ll not only explore what up-to-date science has to teach us about what the past 40 years has got wrong regarding health, diet and lifestyle in ageing, we’ll also discuss successful strategies for living with the reality of a temperament evolutionarily attuned to aesthetic pleasures.
Forward toward joy!
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