The Healthy Programmer

What Does It Mean to Be Healthy?

The title of this book may seem self-evident, but it was not easy to include a word that nearly every person has preconceptions about. As Mark Twain once said, “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”

Twain’s quote rings true because the volume of information we are confronted with when learning about our health is enormous (in Twain’s time it was probably just erroneous). We receive conflicting information and are often forced to conclude that everything we enjoy is now off limits. The discussion around health in popular media has essentially devolved into a “he said, she said” game. In truth, healthy choices are a personal decision. ...