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The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being
By Harrison, Christy
- ISBN
- 9780316315609
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Spark
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Reviewed on March 1, 2023 | Social Sciences
In Anti-Diet, Harrison excavated the racist, classist, and capitalist roots of the diet industry. Her latest book covers similar ground. Harrison describes wellness as a set of expensive practices and a related belief system that maintains a hierarchy privileging thin, white, affluent people. This saleable version of wellness culture is racially, culturally, and socioeconomically exclusive—almost parodic when discussed in relation to wacky Goop-style trends, but tragic when on...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
