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Dr Nikki Stamp

Pretty Unhealthy

Why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick

Dr Nikki Stamp

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Murdoch Books
03 September 2019

Medicine; Women's 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.

By: Dr Nikki Stamp
Imprint: Murdoch Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9781760524548
ISBN 10: 1760524549
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 03 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Wake-up call 1. Sick enough yet? 2. Whatever we're doing it's not working 3. Diet is a 4-letter word 4. Bikini bodies 5. Eating disorders: the unbearable lightness 6. AntiSocial 7. Body positivity 8. Extraordinary bodies 9. Pretty healthy Epilogue Suggested reading

Dr Nikki Stamp FRACS is a cardiothoracic surgeon, one of only 11 female heart surgeons in Australia. Her clinical work is at the forefront of cardiothoracic surgery, including transplants and congenital heart disease. She has a particular interest in women's heart disease and how the medical system can better serve female patients. Nikki is the author of Can You Die of a Broken Heart?, which has been translated into 7 languages, and hosted heart health episodes for Australia's flagship science TV program Catalyst as well as hosting Operation Live, in which she commentated a live caesarean birth and live open-heart surgery.

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