Pretty Unhealthy

Name: Pretty Unhealthy
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SKU: 9781760524548
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Why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick

By Nikki Stamp

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Pretty Unhealthy by Dr Nikki Stamp investigates the paradox of modern wellness culture: despite the proliferation of gyms, health foods, and activewear, society faces increasing obesity, inactivity, and stress. The book questions our obsession with equating beauty to health and challenges the notion of being "fit and fat." Dr Stamp critiques the influence of online wellness experts and social media on our perception of health, exposing how this can lead to unhappiness and misguided priorities.

Drawing on her experience as a heart surgeon and health commentator, she debunks pseudoscience and offers practical, science-based advice. The author emphasises the importance of self-kindness and sustainable motivation for a genuinely healthy lifestyle, promoting a balanced approach to diet and exercise.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in health and wellness who seek to navigate and debunk the hype of social media fitness culture. It suits anyone frustrated with unrealistic beauty-health standards and looking for evidence-based, compassionate guidance towards long-term physical and mental wellbeing.

A heart surgeon and TV star investigates why our health is declining despite our obsession with fitspiration and the image of health.

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How have we messed up our relationship with food and exercise so badly? Despite an explosion in the number of gyms, health foods and activewear, we are more obese, less active, more stressed than ever before.

We obsess over looking healthy, but our health is getting worse. Why did we start equating beauty with health? And is it possible to be fit and fat?

Equipped with Instagram accounts and blogs, online 'wellness experts' lead an army of followers towards what is labelled 'health' but might actually be far from it. We photograph ourselves and our food, but aren't sure whether we like the images until someone else 'likes' them first. It seems all this health and wellness is making us unhappy, poor and pretty unhealthy instead.

Heart surgeon and health commentator Dr Nikki Stamp unpicks the web of online pseudoscience and urges us to take back our health from the people who don't value it as much as we do. She explores the secret of long-term motivation for healthy diet and exercise, and shares the scientific value of self-kindness for true physical and mental health.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760524548

Publisher: Murdoch Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Murdoch Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 346g

Pages: 256

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Health & Wellness Nikki Stamp Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development Women's Health

About the Author

Dr Nikki Stamp FRACS is a cardiothoracic surgeon, one of only 11 female heart surgeons in Australia. Her clinical work is at the forefront of cardiothoracic surgery, including transplants and congenital heart disease. She has a particular interest in women's heart disease and how the medical system can better serve female patients. Nikki has hosted heart health episodes for Australia's flagship science TV programme, Catalyst, as well as Operation Live, in which she commentated a live caesarean birth. Her first book, Can You Die of a Broken Heart?, has been translated into seven languages.

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