Posted on 12/12/2019 5:21:38 AM PST by ml/nj
Food for thought — while the industry does have positive attributes, it also leads to disordered eating, promotes unrealistic body types and is highly exclusive
The wellness industry has been a smashing success the past few years with a $4.2 trillion market in 2017. Wellness is defined as “the state of being in good health,” but has been marred by the industry’s commercialization of avocado toast, the elimination of dairy and gluten, intermittent fasting, replacing every grain with cauliflower, using expensive skin care products — the list goes on.
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ML/NJ
My wife dragged me off to a Wellness Weekend...operation offered up a decent hotel, breakfast and dinner, and thirty-odd ‘treatments’. After four days, I tried to be cordial about the business, and would admit that they did serve mighty fine food. But for the cost, it was a total waste of money.
Frankly, if you just went to some isolated cabin, sniffed pure mountain air, drank decent tea and coffee, and made up home-cooked dinners for four days...it would have been just as fine of a Wellness Weekend as the thousand-dollar deal.
His aunt was concerned. She began to try all manner of remedies on him. She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it. She was an inveterate experimenter in these things. When something fresh in this line came out she was in a fever, right away, to try it; not on herself, for she was never ailing, but on anybody else that came handy. She was a subscriber for all the “Health” periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils. All the “rot” they contained about ventilation, and how to go to bed, and how to get up, and what to eat, and what to drink, and how much exercise to take, and what frame of mind to keep one’s self in, and what sort of clothing to wear, was all gospel to her, and she never observed that her health-journals of the current month customarily upset everything they had recommended the month before.
This may be why the President is going to Battle Creek.
Eat a decent diet (little or no junk food or McDonald’s) get some exercise (a regular 30 minute walk for example),no drugs,little or no alcohol,keep it under 100 on the Interstate..and you’ll be fine.
Any primary care physician will tell you that the pursuit for “heath” runs parallel and intersects with the patient’s mystical propensities. They tolerate no criticism of their quest and are very susceptible to almost any new fad however bizarre and scientifically groundless. Clemens observed and documented this behavior eloquently in 19th century Americans. It should be noted that ancient writers such as Herodotus documented the same behavior.
A wellness coach has helped get my husband’s diabetes under control through diet. I am grateful for her guidance and encouragement.
Moderation, Lean Protein and Vegestables
Do the above and be healthy
Within the “wellness industry” are 2 rough categories of clients (with proprietors to match):
- those seeking fine-tuned permanent correction of genuine maladies
- those seeking fad fixes for chronic willful malnourishment.
Calling Capt. Obvious.
This is a central premise in my books, but it doesn’t matter:
It is the central reason why I abandoned further research & outreach, companion to the other reason which is still a tightly-held secret.
Rare indeed, but one sentence jumped out at me, prompting a deeper dig:
“Wellness should be genderless, classless and raceless.”
So is what we have here is a moment of clarity by a clueless, woke millenial now driving people to get help from the National Eating Disorders Association for a mental disorder?
From her LinkedIn profile:
“I bring my photography, in addition to writing and social media skills into the health, wellness, and food industry. I use my experience to connect with real people to display my passion for real, whole foods and healthy recipes, alongside an active lifestyle. I connect with readers by staying honest and avidly support having balance, as I believe true health comes with no restriction. I also use my blog to keep readers informed about issues I am most passionate about outside the realm of health and wellness, such as climate change and humanitarian crises.”
I wouldn’t give too much stock in a young woman who just labeled all of those she’s reaching out to in her “mass communication” studies” parallel to her medical studies as “mental health patients” without any justification whatsoever.
Furthermore, she also writes in the linked article,
“A majority of the claims made by influencers are backed by pseudoscience and diet culture.”
Considering her embracement of ‘climate change’ she clearly has no clue whatsoever about the world around her, particularly about health sciences surrounding the epidemic affecting western culture.
Sad, but pathetic product of our education system...
...soon to be in the real world driving policy for the next generation.
Yes, you too might someday be red-flagged for buying the wrong food at the store, all things being equal about the thought process of those who promote global action on ‘climate change’...
I became a fitness instructor at the age of 52 (am now 64). Mainly Pilates, but more traditional forms of exercise, too (think my hero, Jack Lalane). I was a “gentle” trainer — meaning, I did not buy into the fad exercise crazes out there because people did not stick with them. I taught fitness that would become a non-cumbersome habit for life. My clients wound up as ripped or not as they wanted to be — I would take them to the extreme if they wanted it, but I always cautioned against it. I had a great deal of success with my clients, but I was continually told, “You aren’t as hard as my other trainer...why don’t you push me harder.” My gentler Pilates methods (even with young people) and a healthy diet that didn’t go fringe, always worked. But because it wasn’t “nuts,” some people didn’t think I was doing my job.
And BTW, the author was a Tim Kaine supporter, Hillary’s running mate, VP-not-to-be.
Translated: Raging liberal-progressive democrat. The article reeks of her.
It’s rather shameful, because the premise has merit.
But not by labeling everyone as mental health patients without cause.
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