Why we worry too much about health

Why we worry too much about health -
Features, Health & Families - The Independent: "The rise of modern medicine has provided a convenient altar at which the world's worriers may kneel: the newspaper health scare story. It might not be the same as donning a hair shirt, but surely if we fret about mobile phones/X-rays/oxygen giving us cancer, take every test and gulp the right pills, a guardian angel will reward us for our vigilance with a long and fruitful life?

Not so, say Dr Susan M Love and Alice Domar, the co-authors of Live a Little!, Breaking the Rules Won't Break Your Heath, a new guide to healthy living published in the US late last year. In the book the pair make the case that many of us are living healthier lives than we may realise."