Smash the Wellness Industry
Why are so many smart women falling for its harmful, pseudoscientific claims?
By Jessica Knoll
I called this poisonous relationship between a body I was indoctrinated to hate and food I had been taught to fear “wellness.” This was before I could recognize wellness culture for what it was — a dangerous con that seduces smart women with pseudoscientific claims of increasing energy, reducing inflammation, lowering the risk of cancer and healing skin, gut and fertility problems...
Finally, wellness also contributes to the insulting cultural subtext that women cannot be trusted to make decisions when it comes to our own bodies, even when it comes to nourishing them. We must adhere to some sort of “program” or we will go off the rails.
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www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/women-dieting-wellness.html?searchResultPosition=1
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