Wellness trends are the latest fad these days, and everyone seems to be an expert.
In the past year or so, there has been a very significant increase in people pushing for certain ways of lifestyle, either from rejecting sugar for jaggery or using pink salt, detox tea, and many others, all making a single point that these alternatives are better and, more importantly, ‘healthier’ than the currently used products.
Social media has also now become the go-to source for health advice, with many influencers and so-called experts popping up, making short videos and reels on what commonly used things are very harmful for you and how, instead, you should be using this or that or some other new thing.
These people with little to no medical expertise and randomly gathered data have started many wellness trends that people are engaging with too seriously. In light of that, an oncologist on LinkedIn has attempted to debunk some of these trends in a fun manner.
What Did The Oncologist Say?
On May 28, Dr Jayesh Sharma, a senior consultant for Surgical Oncology and former Chief of Medical Services at the BALCO Medical Centre in Chhattisgarh, posted on LinkedIn, calling out the recent wellness trends. But more importantly, he also shed light on how regular people seem to be following them blindly, without understanding the consequences and how they might actually be more harmful than useful.
Dr Sharma, creating interactive comic series styled posters, debunked several of these trends. He wrote, “She looked at me in the chamber and said, ‘And, of course, I’ve shifted to pink salt and desi jaggery.’ She smiled. She thought she was doing everything right. And honestly, I didn’t blame her.
From WhatsApp groups to influencer reels, the amount of wellness advice out there is wild.
Some of it is helpful.
A lot of it? Not just useless, but harmful.
So I decided to do something different, something vivid enough to be saved, shared, and maybe even laughed at.
I made a comic-style series called: ‘Wellness trends jo aapko bimar kar rahe hain.’ Each panel tackles one ‘healthy’ trend that may actually be making people sick.”
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The unsettling reality behind the appealing visuals and positive reviews of many wellness trends is that they can be ineffective at best and harmful at worst. As the distinction between authentic health advice and marketing becomes less clear, it is essential to question what we are consuming, both in terms of food and information.
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Sources: LinkedIn, Livemint, Times Now
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