The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being

The Wellness Trap by Christy Harrison explores the harmful aspects of modern wellness culture, which promotes an unattainable and deeply damaging standard of health. She sheds light on how a growing distrust of conventional medicine has led ordinary people to turn their backs on science, and offers practical advice for navigating health concerns in the era of hyper-information.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

From the paradigm-shifting author of Anti-Diet comes a deep dive into the underbelly of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being.

It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle. You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison reveals in her latest book, wellness culture promotes a standard of health that is often both unattainable and deeply harmful.

Many people with chronic illness understandably feel dismissed or abandoned by the healthcare system and find solace in alternative medicine, as Harrison once did. Yet the wellness industry promotes practices that can cause even more damage than the conventional approaches they're meant to replace.

The Wellness Trap delves into the persistent, systemic problems with the industry, shedding light on how a growing distrust of conventional medicine has led ordinary people to turn their backs on science. Weaving together history, memoir, reporting, and practical advice, Harrison illuminates the harms of wellness culture while re-imagining our society's relationship with well-being.

Praise for The Wellness Trap:

Essential for anyone navigating health concerns in the era of hyper-information.
- Laura Thomas, author of Just Eat It

Before you start your next diet, supplement, or wellness practice, read this book!
- Judith Matz, LCSW, author of The Diet Survivor's Handbook

With nuance and compassion, Christy shows us how to be well, without being manipulated.
- Alan Levinovitz, author of Natural

In this remarkable book, Christy Harrison blows the lid off the wellness industry and exposes its flaws, untruths, and toxicity. This book is a life-changer!
- Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDS-S, Co-author of Intuitive Eating

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Weight: 396g
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529388954