Bernard O'Shea: Butter bad, salad good? Health is about progress — not perfection

For years, I lived in a world of absolutes regarding health. Butter? Bad. Eggs? Worse. Walking? A waste of time.

Bernard O'Shea. Photograph Moya Nolan

Like many of us, I categorised everything into neat little boxes of “good” and “bad,” believing I had the wellness formula all figured out.

Then, during a session with Jill Taylor, an online fitness and nutrition coach, she planted a little grenade of curiosity in my mind.