In the margins of every story about health – how long red meat lurks in your intestines, how much baby boomers binge drink, what a vegan diet can do for your sleep patterns – lies a question: what makes your health anybody else’s concern? Why shouldn’t a grown adult decide for herself how many tomatoes she wants to eat? Who cares whether a stranger’s liver has had a break two days a week? The question is never asked but always answered: because this constitutes an “NHS timebomb”.
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