The wellness trap : break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses -- and find your true well-being / Christy Harrison, MPH, RD.
“It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.” You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison reveals in her latest book, wellness culture promotes a standard of health that is often both unattainable and deeply harmful. Many people with chronic illness understandably feel dismissed or abandoned by the healthcare system and find solace in alternative medicine, as Harrison once did. Yet the wellness industry promotes practices that often cause even more damage than the conventional approaches they’re meant to replace. From the lack of pre-market safety testing on herbal and dietary supplements, to the unfounded claims made by many wellness influencers and functional-medicine providers, to the social-media algorithms driving users down rabbit holes of wellness mis- and disinformation, it can often feel like no one is looking out for us in the face of the
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316315609(hardcover)
- Physical Description: 311 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Wellness and diet culture -- Clean and natural -- Determinants -- Mis- and disinformation -- The anti-vax rabbit hole -- Dubious diagnoses and spurious cures -- Scams, schemes, and snake oil -- From wellness to well-being. |
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Subject: | Alternative medicine > Social aspects. Medical misconceptions. Misinformation > Health aspects. Well-being. Self-care, Health. |
Genre: | Self-help publications. |
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