Social Media: It is bad for your health

If you follow me on social media, you know I have been awfully quiet for a while. I went on Instagram after a long time today.

I was appalled.

Advice on how to live healthy was being given freely. By anyone. By everyone. Billionaires, actors, actresses, trainers, motivational speakers, guriji’s, stock brokers.

It was like the world had suddenly decided it must tell you how to be healthy. Or perhaps Google Trends had told them this was the best way to get attention.

The advice was very confusing. Protein seemed to be the flavour of the day, week, month.

So in thirty minutes I was told to have protein, not have protein, have whey protein, not have whey protein, turn vegetarian and then turn non-vegetarian.

I was more likely to turn into a circus monkey, then someone healthy.

Of course, that was the next trend. People taking snippets of content others had put out, then either making fun of it or discrediting it.

I had one thought. Run!

Run away as fast as possible.

No one seemed to feel any sense of accoutability or responsibility for what they were saying. They didn't seem to believe they needed any education or qualification to have an opinion.

All of this may seem very funny, until it isn't.

Because there is a risk.

The risk of leaving innocent people confused. The risk of people actually following the bad advice and then suffering from the consequences.

The risk of people getting jaded from having followed bad advice and believing that it is not possible to be healthy.

Because good health is simple. It is easy, it is possible. It is for everyone, regardless of age, genetics or history.

Good health comes from consistently doing the right things over long periods of time.

My humble advice?

Stay away from social media when it comes to health.

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