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A heart surgeon and TV star investigates why our health is declining despite our obsession with fitspiration and the image of health. How have we messed up our relationship with food and exercise so badly? Despite an explosion in the number of gyms, health foods and activewear, we are more obese, less active, more stressed than ever before. We obsess over looking healthy, but our health is getting worse. Why did we start equating beauty with health? And is it possible to be fit and fat? Equipped with Instagram accounts and blogs, online 'wellness experts' lead an army of followers towards what is labelled 'health' but might actually be far from it. We photograph ourselves and our food, but aren't sure whether we like the images until someone else 'likes' them first. It seems all this health and wellness is making us unhappy, poor and pretty unhealthy instead. Heart surgeon and health commentator Dr Nikki Stamp unpicks the web of online pseudoscience and urges us to take back our health from the people who don't value it as much as we do. She explores the secret of long-term motivation for healthy diet and exercise, and shares the scientific value of self-kindness for true physical and mental health.

Pretty unhealthy : why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick / Nikki Stamp.

Cultural sutures : medicine and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman.

Explores the media coverage of the controversy of autism and the claimed links between the condition and vaccines, maintaining that mainstream news sources have failed to appropriately recognize and investigate these claims.

The big autism cover-up : how and why the media is lying to the American public / Anne Dachel.

Pink ribbon blues : how breast cancer culture undermines women's health / Gayle A. Sulik.

Nick Ross, Sue Slipman, Lord Victor Adebowale and Kate O'Rourke discuss how and why public health scares seem to be having a worse effect on us than they have in the past. Conversely, how can we assess health risks for ourselves when given conflicting and confusing information from the government, the Department of Health, the media and independent scientists?

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When is a health scare not a health scare?

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Pretty unhealthy : why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick / Nikki Stamp.

Cultural sutures : medicine and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman.

The big autism cover-up : how and why the media is lying to the American public / Anne Dachel.

Pink ribbon blues : how breast cancer culture undermines women's health / Gayle A. Sulik.

When is a health scare not a health scare?

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Health in mass media

Catalogue

Pretty unhealthy : why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick / Nikki Stamp.

Cultural sutures : medicine and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman.

The big autism cover-up : how and why the media is lying to the American public / Anne Dachel.

Pink ribbon blues : how breast cancer culture undermines women's health / Gayle A. Sulik.

When is a health scare not a health scare?

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