Wellness Demystified: Six Simple Rules for a Sustainable Healthy Life

Public-health expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel argues against wellness hype and offers six practical shifts: replace extreme trends with steady movement (about 150 minutes weekly), eat with others and cook real food while limiting ultra-processed snacks, ditch obsessive habit-tracking and screen-time rules, view wellness as just one part of a full life not the sole focus, and build cognitive and social richness through hobbies and diverse mental activities to sustain healthy habits with pleasure and consistency.