How RFK’s Attack on Food Ingredients Promotes Disordered Eating
Plus, the links: Brain fog, fatphobia at the doctor's office, threats to vaccine infrastructure, and more
Welcome to another installment of the Rethinking Wellness link roundup! Here I’m offering a small collection of links from around the internet that are relevant to the conversations we have here, along with some quick takes and occasional deeper dives for paid subscribers.
This time the takes/dives are about my own experience with brain fog, and how RFK’s attack on food ingredients promotes disordered eating.
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Here are some pieces that got me thinking in the past few weeks. I found value in all of these, but links are not endorsements of every single detail in the piece or everything the writer ever wrote.
CDC Wants To Revisit Debunked Theories Of Links Between Vaccines And Autism (Forbes)
Lifesaving mRNA Vaccine Technology Appears Targeted under Trump and RFK, Jr. (Scientific American)
Related: How RFK Jr. is quietly undermining America’s vaccination infrastructure (The Atlantic)
Measles cases pick up as RFK promotes unproven treatments (BBC)
Related: His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade (The Atlantic)
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories (NYT)
Related: Vitamin A and Measles: What the data show (and how to talk about it) ( and )
The casual fatphobia of the doctor’s office (
)Brain Fog Is Here to Stay (The Cut)
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Does This Study Really Show Diets Are *Good* for Disordered Eating?
How to Handle an Anxious Gut (Best Of)
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