Heavy physicians author new diet books. Supplement makers issue health magazines. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor TV news shows. Exposing the reality about health may be hard if you've been overexposed to masked marketing messages that prefer sales over truth. Health product sellers frequently seem to follow this classic advice: "Get your facts 1st, and then you are able to distort them as much as you like."

My goal here isn't to get you to adopt my personal feelings about wellness. Rather, I wish to give you the means to think intelligently about the affair for yourself. Take a minute to clear your brain of everything you believe you know about wellness. Let's go back to the first principles, beginning with your basic percepts. Suspend the doubt of what you think you ought to be doing, and have a look at what your senses are telling you today. Take a great look at your body. Get nude and assess yourself in a mirror if possible.