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...what to make of ever-contradictory health advisories, you'd be forgiven for throwing up your hands and ignoring the whole mess of guidelines altogether. The good news, according to Dr. Susan Love and health psychologist Alice Domar, is that you can go right ahead. In their new book, Live a Little! Breaking the Rules Won't Break Your Health, the authors say your best bet is to scrap the crazy rules and adopt commonsense habits that will keep you safe from premature disability or death - while leaving you plenty of license to enjoy life. TIME spoke with the authors...
...that some of the anxiety over health rules comes from the sense that if we can just follow them, we'll never have health problems and will live forever. Love: And it's just not true...
...remember thinking, Here's somebody who was leading what we would call a perfectly [healthful] life. And she still got sick and died. The reason we think we have to follow these rules is because we want control. We're trying to educate women. Have peace of mind, but live your life the best...
Love: It gets to be magical thinking: If I just do this, this and this, I'll live forever. Well, the goal is not to live forever. The goal is to live as long as you can with the best quality of life. And then drop dead...
...parallels end there. Although bin Laden saw plenty of Western culture in his youth, he seems to have been profoundly uncomfortable with it. Not so al-Awlaki. Now 38, he has lived in the West for more than half his life, speaks fluent English and peppers his sermons with references to Western places and people. A recent lecture on death, for instance, was informed by an old Michael Jackson interview in which the singer said he wanted to "live forever." Hard to imagine bin Laden referring to the King of Pop in a sermon...