Is Wellness Making You Sick?
Christy Harrison shares 5 key insights from The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being.
Are you caught in the wellness web? Promises of detoxes, superfoods, and supplements flood our feeds, each claiming to unlock ultimate health and happiness. But beneath the glossy posts and billion-dollar marketing campaigns lies a darker truth: wellness culture often prioritizes profit over evidence, leaving us more stressed, misinformed, and unwell than ever. In The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being, “anti-diet dietitian”
exposes the myths, traps, and downright dangers of this booming industry—and offers a path to reclaiming true well-being. Ready to break free? Scroll down to hear Christy share her big ideas.The 5 Key Insights:
1. Pursuing wellness often leads to disordered eating.
2. People who feel unheard or unserved by conventional medicine are especially susceptible to the harms of wellness culture.
3. Wellness approaches can distract from the true cause of illness.
4. Social media algorithms facilitate the spread of wellness misinformation and disinformation.
5. We can free ourselves from the wellness trap.
Hear Christy explain how to break free from the wellness trap:
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