Ozempic: the Book, Another Fake Anti-Diet, and More

Here's what I've been reading and mulling over this month

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Welcome back to the Rethinking Wellness monthly link roundup! Each month 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.

Links

Here are some pieces that got me thinking this month, including one I was interviewed for. I generally enjoyed all of these, but links are not endorsements of every single detail in the piece or everything the writer ever wrote.

• AG1 Tried to Kill this Video. . . but it didn't work by

  Scott Carney
  (with a cameo by yours truly—you can watch the full video for free even though the written part is paywalled)

• Overthinking About Narcissism by

  Amanda Montell

• The Battle Against Misinformation by

  Gloria Mark

  • Related: Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens

• The Eye of the Beholder Got a Blepharoplasty by

  Jessica DeFino

• I’m the Child of a Facetune Mom by

  kate lindsay

  • Related: Is It OK To Tell Your Daughter She’s Pretty? by

    Virginia Sole-Smith

• We Need To Talk About P-Hacking by

  Ragen Chastain

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Quick Takes / Deeper Dives

A Paleo Influencer Changes Course, Another Faux “Anti-Diet,” and the New Ozempic Book