{"id":1016,"date":"2021-09-09T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEOSUV6J8xBd1tiJpCx3Nh2AqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY"},"modified":"2021-09-09T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:11:42","slug":"breaking-down-the-wellness-industrial-complex-an-episode-at-a-time-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the \u2018Wellness-Industrial Complex,\u2019 an Episode at a Time – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aubrey Gordon collects vintage diet books<\/a>. She has amassed almost 100 titles, including the 1973 volume \u201cSlimming Down,\u201d written by Johnny Carson\u2019s sidekick, Ed McMahon. \u201cSlimming Down\u201d \u2014 which featured chapter titles like \u201cThe Breadstick Conspiracy\u201d and \u201cTwo Martinis Into Connecticut\u201d \u2014 is the book that began Ms. Gordon\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

And while the idea of mixology as nutritional strategy might seem absurd to a reader today, Ms. Gordon said that so much of the current thinking about what is now known as wellness is just as \u201chilarious and wacky.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the podcast \u201cMaintenance Phase,\u201d named after the concept of sustaining post-diet weight loss, Ms. Gordon and the journalist Michael Hobbes spend each episode exploring what they call the \u201cwellness-industrial complex<\/a>,\u201d debunking health fads and nutritional advice.<\/p>\n

While health, weight and wellness are important issues, much of what Americans understand about them is actually hollow marketing, Mr. Hobbes said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n