Bibliograph

The wellness trap, break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses--and find your true well-being, Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

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The wellness trap, break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses--and find your true well-being, Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-298) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The wellness trap

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1376374099

Responsibility statement

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

Sub title

break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses--and find your true well-being

Summary

""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. Weaving together history, memoir, reporting, and practical advice, Harrison illuminates the harms of wellness culture while re-imagining our society's relationship with well-being"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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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