It's only mid February of a new-ish year and already Canadians have been warned that no amount of alcohol is safe to drink. Then came the warning about heavy metals in dark chocolate. Add these to a growing list of foods and beverages that are bad for one's health, and to the implication that if we all do the right things, we might live forever.
I read both these pieces of health news while relaxing on a patio in a small town on the West Coast of Mexico. In the early morning, outside my gate, families loaded onto a single motor scooter, dad or mom driving, usually in flip flops, sometimes with a baby in a chest pouch. School-going kids were dressed and neatly groomed and no one wore a helmet.
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