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This Toxic Waste is Clinically Proven To Make You Immortal

This Toxic Waste is Clinically Proven To Make You Immortal

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Nov 02, 2022
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Wellness Ignores the Problem

In The Gospel of Wellness by Rina Raphael, she outlines how women are seeking solutions to an over-burdened life, and are pressured to live up to examples in the media of how they are supposed to do it all, while thin. These messages have an effect.

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Instagram and other social media show silly women who actually cut their children’s food into little shapes for their school lunch. Of course, that is not enough. You can see women doing the same for their husbands. On a site dubiously named “Downshiftology” there is an entire page with bento box recipes. Where, oh where, is the downshift in making your sandwiches into edible art?

like I don’t have enough headaches

Other examples of social media influence: looking perfect (whatever that is), not aging, “good” food vs. “bad” food, looking glamorous while exercising, etc.

More than that, women are considered personally responsible for toxins not getting into family food.

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