You Can’t See Your Own Health Clearly

About this episode

This episode explores the challenges people face in accurately evaluating their own health amidst changing standards of what is considered strong or healthy.

Send us Fan Mail Last time, I talked about how the visual standard for the human body has changed over time, and how what looks strong or healthy today would have looked unusual just a few decades ago. But even if you understand that those standards are distorted, there’s a deeper problem: most people still can’t accurately evaluate their own health. In this episode, I explore why that happens. The tools people rely on—what they see in the mirror, what the scale shows, how they feel day to da...

People in this episode

Host: Artis L Beatty

Topics covered

• self-evaluation
• health standards
• body image
• perception of health
• personal health assessment

Keywords

• health
• body image
• self-assessment
• health perception
• visual standards

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