Description: On being human - and writing about it
[Note that this blog is a work in progress, and that this and following posts are not final and set in stone. I may revise them later as I find out new facts or just think more deeply about the topic.]
Health – in our current life it has become almost a national obsession. Daily we are deluged with media reports about health, how to achieve or maintain it, what the latest research says about X, what to eat or not eat…. And yet there are more questions left unasked, let alone answered. Why, for example, do more people die of heart disease now than tuberculosis (which killed my aunt in 1920)? Why do people in northern climates get multiple sclerosis at a rate many times that of people in the tropics? Why is
Perhaps we can turn some of these questions around, and ask them in reversed form, a form that gets overlooked in the clamor of why this or that pathology waxes or wanes. And so we can ask one of those “invisible” questions – what do people in a particular area need as a group to be healthy?