Author: Jacqueline Alnes
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1685890768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A powerful critique of the failures in our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets. Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes’s symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. She was admitted to an epilepsy center but doctors could not figure out the root cause of her symptoms. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around a strict, all-fruit diet which its adherents claimed could cure conditions like depression, eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, and vision problems. Alnes wasn’t alone. From all over the world, people in pain, doubted or dismissed by medical authorities, or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white, Western expectations placed on their figures, turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies. In The Fruit Cure, Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the world of fruitarianism, interweaving her own powerful narrative with the popularity and problematic history of fruit-based, raw food lifestyles. For readers plagued by mysterious symptoms, inundated by messages from media about how to attain “the perfect body,” or caught in the grips of a fast-paced culture of capitalism, The Fruit Cure offers a powerful critique of the failures of our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets masquerading as hope.
The Fruit Cure
Author: Jacqueline Alnes
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1685890768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A powerful critique of the failures in our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets. Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes’s symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. She was admitted to an epilepsy center but doctors could not figure out the root cause of her symptoms. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around a strict, all-fruit diet which its adherents claimed could cure conditions like depression, eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, and vision problems. Alnes wasn’t alone. From all over the world, people in pain, doubted or dismissed by medical authorities, or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white, Western expectations placed on their figures, turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies. In The Fruit Cure, Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the world of fruitarianism, interweaving her own powerful narrative with the popularity and problematic history of fruit-based, raw food lifestyles. For readers plagued by mysterious symptoms, inundated by messages from media about how to attain “the perfect body,” or caught in the grips of a fast-paced culture of capitalism, The Fruit Cure offers a powerful critique of the failures of our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets masquerading as hope.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1685890768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A powerful critique of the failures in our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets. Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes’s symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. She was admitted to an epilepsy center but doctors could not figure out the root cause of her symptoms. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around a strict, all-fruit diet which its adherents claimed could cure conditions like depression, eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, and vision problems. Alnes wasn’t alone. From all over the world, people in pain, doubted or dismissed by medical authorities, or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white, Western expectations placed on their figures, turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies. In The Fruit Cure, Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the world of fruitarianism, interweaving her own powerful narrative with the popularity and problematic history of fruit-based, raw food lifestyles. For readers plagued by mysterious symptoms, inundated by messages from media about how to attain “the perfect body,” or caught in the grips of a fast-paced culture of capitalism, The Fruit Cure offers a powerful critique of the failures of our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets masquerading as hope.
Lectures on Life and Health, Or, The Laws and Means of Physical Culture
Author: William Andrus Alcott
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Monthly journal of medical science
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Languages : en
Pages : 1336
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Languages : en
Pages : 1336
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Lectures on Life and Health; or, the Laws and means of physical culture, etc. [With a portrait.]
Author: William Andrus ALCOTT
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The United States Catalog
Author: George Flavel Danforth
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Muscle, Brain and Diet. A Plea for Simpler Foods
Author: Eustace Miles
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Monthly Journal of Medical Science
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Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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