What's missing from this "landscape" is a Bacon-Aphramor-style acknowledgment of how stressors like racism and classism drive people's inability to empower ourselves and to make the supposedly *~*good choices*~*. IOW, if you have only bad choices and you know that you do, that is in and of itself a major stressor which damages your health and shortens your life.
In short, this pic looks nice but it's actually kinda' bullshit.
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...Though honestly access to green spaces like forests and parks (and the leisure time to enjoy them) is itself a privilege denied the majority of working and/or poor people, or people living in societies dominated by racism, etc. So it's just boxes within boxes of irony, I think. :/
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I can only but agree in the general sense, but what is the conclusion for an individual? Do nothing and just wait for systemic stress factors to be eliminated?
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That's not what the authors argue at all. They argue that it's counterproductive to badger others about "lifestyle" without acknowledging the larger world those others exist in. Also that it's ostrich thinking to focus on things like diet and exercise without examining that larger world as you do so.
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Also, I tend to infer from much of what they wrote that often people being hurt the most by and fighting the hardest against social injustice are the ones who couldn't access the "good choices" in the first place. They are focusing on societal health instead of their own individual health: trying to lay the foundation for a better world where others won't be in the same trap they are in right now.
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Did you perceive this picture as "badgering"?
I understood it as a science-based ranking of modifiable risks to our health, and posted as such.
I mean, we live in a world of fucked up risk perception - people are scared of things like terrorism, nuclear power and GMO, which are millions times less likely to harm them than car accident (non-modifiable) or any of those on the picture.
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It's a gateway to badgering. :P
Like I said. Check out the book. It's accessible, probably at your library, and well worth the short time it'll take you to get through.
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It's on LibGen :)
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> focus on things like diet and exercise without examining that larger world
You can certainly do both at the same time 🤷
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Few media taste-makers do, however. So we get these articles which demand that we "cut out" this cheap and filling but "bad" food or that one, get more sleep, etc. But those articles dodge the fact that if we want to have an hour lunch break or a shorter work week (heaven forbid a living wage, too) to make those things happen, we can't. Our bosses will laugh at us, or kick us to the curb, or both.
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The authors of *Body Respect*, Bacon and Aphramor, discuss at length the routine/daily experience of chronic stress which is part of our daily lives in the "civilized" world. They assert that it's under-examined as a factor in who enjoys health and longevity vs. who does not. I highly recommend it.
Our forced submission to "power-over" relationships is the "soil" in which all this other stuff grows, and that chronic stress is the "grass" it produces, kind of...