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Do You Really Need to Worry About Your Blood Glucose?
My take on the trend of glucose monitoring for people without diabetes, and why obsessing over glucose is risky for all of us
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Why Is My New Book About Wellness?
Some of the reasons I decided to do a deep dive into wellness culture
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
The Truth About Diet Drugs, Part 2
Why we should be extremely wary of new diet drugs being hailed as "miracles."
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Can a Health Professional Do Lifestyle Medicine and Still Be Anti-Diet?
Probably not, although there are a few areas of overlap.
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
What If Your Doctor Tells You to Take Supplements?
Thinking critically and conversing respectfully about supplement recommendations
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
What About Anti-Inflammatory Diets?
Unpacking the evidence behind this wellness-culture trend
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Some Thoughts About Baby Feeding
Q&A: How diet and wellness culture have influenced popular infant-feeding trends
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Do Autoimmune Diets Really Work?
Placebos and the problem with anecdotal evidence about diets
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
The Truth About Supplements
Why herbal and dietary supplements are often unnecessary and may even be harmful
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Do You Really Need to Track Your Body?
Unpacking the wellness-culture trend of monitoring every bodily function
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Do You Need Collagen Supplements?
The truth about the trendy powders and their purported anti-aging benefits
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Dys-Functional Medicine
Why the functional-medicine field is low on evidence and rife with diet culture
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
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