الأحد، 3 يناير 2016

Health warnings can be bad for you. Risk brings us together | Zoe Williams

From baby boomers’ binge drinking to children’s play, the modern obsession with risk aversion only serves to fence off our empathy

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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