Drink whiskey, take more naps, throw out your multivitamins: The Good News About What's Bad for You (and Vice Versa) provides all the latest research to justify indulging the vices you love and ditching the 'healthy' habits you hate. Jeff Wilser sprints through scientific evidence on everything from the benefits of procrastination and playing video games to the downsides of practising yoga and eating kale. Humorous and life-affirming, this book is a slap in the face to the puritanical and a joyful endorsement for pleasure seekers. It's all the proof you need that the best way to live a life is with 'everything in moderation'.

Author Biography

Jeff Wilser is a writer whose work has appeared in GQ, New York magazine, Esquire, Mental Floss, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and many other publications. His television appearances have ranged from BBC News to The View. He collaborated with Marc Ecko on the book Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out. Wilser is also the founding editor of The Plunge, a website for grooms, and his relationship advice has been syndicated via McClatchy to a network of more than two hundred newspapers.