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The Wellness Syndrome (Paperback)
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The Wellness Syndrome (Paperback)
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Loot Price R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in
your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a
victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book,
Carl Cederstrom and Andre Spicer argue that the ever-present
pressure to maximize our wellness has started to work against us,
making us feel worse and provoking us to withdraw into ourselves.
The Wellness Syndrome follows health freaks who go to extremes to
find the perfect diet, corporate athletes who start the day with a
dance party, and the self-trackers who monitor everything,
including their own toilet habits. This is a world where feeling
good has become indistinguishable from being good. Visions of
social change have been reduced to dreams of individual
transformation, political debate has been replaced by insipid
moralising, and scientific evidence has been traded for new-age
delusions. A lively and humorous diagnosis of the cult of wellness,
this book is an indispensable guide for everyone suspicious of our
relentless quest to be happier and healthier.
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