The wellness trap : break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses, and find your true well-being / Christy Harrison, MPH, RD.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2023Description: 320 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780316315609
- 613 23/eng/20230411
- R733 .H37 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-298) and index.
""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"--
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