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A review by piabo
The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being by Christy Harrison
5.0
I keep loving Christy Harrison's insights and comments. She gives a great critique of our current society and how the quest to perfect health is actually harmful to an individual and our systems.
Same as her first book this is a must-read for me.
Books like this are actually what I look for when getting health advice. She combines a critical understanding of the scientific method with a great grasp of societal challenges. I feel like she is considerate of inequalities and difficult circumstances people might be in and gives compassionate yet realistic feedback. I aspire to be like her.
Nevertheless, I want to look deeper into this book and the sources as I have a lot of people telling me what I and this book stand for is bullshit. I wonder if this is because wellness and diet culture is so ingrained into us, or if this book is actually just some made up theories themselves. I do not believe the latter, but I am open to the feedback and dig deeper myself. The author does a fabulous job to explain conspiracy theories and how they work, along with transparency in all her motives and an honest explanation of the science. This alone is proof for me. But still, in true spirit of what I learned in the book, I want to make sure what she says is no conspiracy theory. Stay tuned :)
Same as her first book this is a must-read for me.
Books like this are actually what I look for when getting health advice. She combines a critical understanding of the scientific method with a great grasp of societal challenges. I feel like she is considerate of inequalities and difficult circumstances people might be in and gives compassionate yet realistic feedback. I aspire to be like her.
Nevertheless, I want to look deeper into this book and the sources as I have a lot of people telling me what I and this book stand for is bullshit. I wonder if this is because wellness and diet culture is so ingrained into us, or if this book is actually just some made up theories themselves. I do not believe the latter, but I am open to the feedback and dig deeper myself. The author does a fabulous job to explain conspiracy theories and how they work, along with transparency in all her motives and an honest explanation of the science. This alone is proof for me. But still, in true spirit of what I learned in the book, I want to make sure what she says is no conspiracy theory. Stay tuned :)