What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Health is worth having, but the worry spent guarding it can cost more than the trouble it prevents. A body kept in careful condition by a mind that never stops auditing it is not really well. The vigilance becomes its own low fever, running quietly all day.

Notice how much of your day goes to checking, weighing and second-guessing what you eat. If that accounting has grown larger than any benefit it buys, let one rule go this week and see whether anything actually happens. Looking after your body should leave you with more attention for your life, not less.