Luigi Mangione, Healthcare Rage, and Wellness Culture
Plus, the links: YouTube algorithms push eating disorders, pudgy bellies can be strong cores, 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 take/dive is about Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO. Like most of America, I’ve been fascinated with this story and have a lot of complicated feelings about what it all means, so you can see me wrestle with those here.
Links
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.
Trump's pick for FBI director promoted bogus supplements to 'reverse' vaccines (NBC News)
New Study Supports Weight-Neutral Health (
)YouTube algorithms consistently push eating disorder and self-harm content to teen girls, new study finds (CBS News; contains calorie numbers)
)A Pudgy Belly Can Be a Strong Core (
and )Photos of myself make me shudder in horror. Does that mean I’m hideous? (
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