As Christy Harrison, New York-based registered dietitian and host of the “Food Psych” podcast, was writing and promoting her 2019 book, “Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating,” she had a pretty good idea what her second book would be. “I found that I was talking a lot about the second chapter, which was about wellness culture,” she said. “It was really resonating with people.”
As a clinician and a podcaster, Harrison has had many people struggling with disordered eating reach out to tell her they received a diagnosis for leaky gut, candida or adrenal fatigue — with recommendations to adopt a strict diet. They wondered how they could comply with those recommendations while also trying to heal their relationship with food. “Not only are there very little to no [evidence-based] recommendations behind those diseases,” she said, “but with many of those diseases, maybe there’s a grain of truth to them, but the diagnosis itself is dubious.”
Then came COVID, and Harrison watched people capitalize on wellness culture by promoting the idea that fit and healthy people wouldn’t get COVID. Next, was the emergence of QAnon in wellness spaces, coupled with an escalation of anti-vaccine sentiments and social media spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories — all topics she addresses in depth in her new book, “The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses — and Find Your True...
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