60 Minutes: Is The Wellness Industry Actually Poisoning Our Health?
We often hear that it is important to pay attention to our wellness and fitness. Our lifestyle has become quite busy and that is why it become important for us to pay attention to our health. There are many ways to keep us fit and healthy and many are even earning money with the help of it. There are many Youtube channels and Instagram pages have been created that usually focus on sharing health tips and exercise. But recently a survey creates a question mark on the wellness industry and people want to know about it.
60 Minutes Wellness Industry
People are looking to know “Is the wellness industry actually poisoning our health?” or “Is stressing about our health actually making people sick?” It is quite easy these days to question to search if you are doing enough for your health closely everywhere you turn to yourselves there is a well-placed advertisement on social media, a supplement or new vitamin, or a celebrity promoting a wellness heck or the products which claimed to change our life.
Overlook the world of eating 3 veg and meat for dinner and pharmaceuticals- new age wellness teachers are appearing over the place to attempt to sell the common consumer on IV drops, bone broth, intermittent fasting, juice cleanses, carnivore diets, and coffee enemas. While the globe of wellness may have begun with startings-simply as the movement to aid those who think consuming medicine had been failing them these days it is a $7 trillion industry, worth closely 3 times as much as the pharmaceutical industry. The movement of wellness first appeared in the world in the late-1970s, but it is taken on a new life over the last 10 years.
This industry is heavily promoted by influencers, celebrities, and podcasters all over the world, it has become an all-encompassing term, considering expensive health retreats and consuming bone broth every day, jade eggs, and vagina-scented candles. The founder of the wellness brand named “Goop”, actress Gwyneth Paltrow may be the most popular and infamous individual attached to the movement of modern-day wellness. Recently, the actress appeared in a podcast where her statements creates a lot of controversy and made her the topic of interest. In the podcast, she can be seen boasting about her intermittent fasting diet while getting nutrients through the help of an IV drip.
Apart from it, the biggest problem that has been generated in the new modern wellness industry is the lack of information. In order to promote the products mainly self-claimed wellness coaches are only focusing on selling their products and there are many fitness gurus who don’t even qualified for this job and do not have any certificates. They are just only misleading the people which automatically affected their health.
