The question we keep asking wrong After more than two decades in medicine, clinical practice, and research, I had the slow realisation that neither alone was enough. I've come to believe most of us are asking the wrong question about health. We ask what should I cut out? when we should ask what can I build in? We ask is this food good or bad? when the honest answer is almost always: it depends on the whole of your life. Healthy living isn't a set of rules. It's a way of relat

“This world is a mountain, and our action the shout:the echo of the shouts comes back to us.” — Rumi, The Masnavi I Ma’navi , Trans. E. H. Whinfield She was walking past me in a hurry, headphones in, her pace light but determined — that London rhythm of people moving between places. But when she saw me raise a hand, signalling I wanted to speak, she paused. She slipped out one earbud, then the other, and smiled as if she had been listening to something she could easily retur