We were intrigued by a recent piece penned by yoga instructor Tara Stiles on The Huffington Post titled “It’s Cool To Be Healthy Again!” Here’s an excerpt:
Thankfully it’s cool now to be healthy. Organic shopping, cooking at home and with friends, yoga, hiking, walking, biking are all activities that awesomely cool people do. It’s not cool to complain too much about life, job, weight and overall happiness. We all know there is plenty available to do about it. Get to a yoga class, go for a run, ride your bike, eat healthy foods. When you live healthy you feel great – both while you’re doing it and the next morning too. You stop fighting against yourself. You have all the tools you need to shape your life how you want it to be.
We’re happy to report that according to Tara’s list, we partake in several activities that “awesomely cool people” do. 
Do you? And more importantly, do you agree with Tara’s assertion that it’s cool to be healthy again? We doubt that any of you reading this blog post wouldn’t count living a health-focused lifestyle as one of your core values. Yoga and health are practically inseparable concepts, after all. But do you think that being healthy has become particularly stylish and hip as of late? And if so, to whom? To Americans as a whole, or just to certain subsets of Americans – urban progressive yoga types, for example? (Is it uncool of us to typecast people as ‘urban progressive yoga types’? Are we asking too many questions here? )
Lastly, when Tara states that “it’s cool to be healthy again“, we wonder when in the past it was ever especially cool to be healthy, and when this trend ended.
Regardless of whether Tara thoroughly explains her assertion in this article, we can personally proclaim that being healthy is definitely cool in our book. Check out her article here, and take a look at the impressive 149 reader comments at the bottom (as of this writing)! This topic is clearly an intriguing one to many people.
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