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Name: The Wellness Syndrome
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Author: Carl Cederström and André Spicer

Carl Cederström and André Spicer

Why healthy living isn't all it says it is

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What’s in it for me? Learn the truth about modern society’s obsession with “wellness.”

We’re all worried sick about our health. Even if you’re fit, you may feel you need to diet. We don’t sleep enough; we’re constantly jumping on the next trend, be it superfoods or juicing.

What is causing society’s unhealthy obsession with health? Previously only people who were sick made health a central issue. Healthy people, on the other hand, thought about politics, relationships or philosophy – in short, they focused on life in general, not the latest sniffle.

So what’s different today? These blinks help you get to the bottom of the wellness craze to figure out how we can heal ourselves in the right way.

In these blinks, you’ll find out

how being health conscious can harm a budding philosopher;
why eating cookies makes you feel guilty; and
how an obsession with wellness distorts government welfare policy.

An obsession with wellness has become an ideology, limiting freedom of thought and action.

Many people consider the pursuit of wellness a lifelong goal. To stay on track, these people avoid “unhealthy” influences, whether it be eating fatty pork chops or smoking cigarettes. They head to a Pilates class daily and occasionally enjoy some pampering at a fancy spa.

Eating correctly and exercising daily – what’s wrong with that?

Well, we first have to consider that “wellness” means more than exercising regularly and eating healthily. Wellness is an ideology; it holds that a healthy body is a necessary state for success and happiness in life.

Thinking this way marks a significant societal change. If you cared about your looks and health decades ago, people would think you vain and superficial. Today, the cult of wellness stresses that to be successful in everything in life, you need a fat-free, fit body and a clear, capable state of mind.

The problem is that adhering to such an ideology compulsively can limit your freedom of thought, causing you to miss important experiences.

The wellness doctrine is based on a narrow way of thinking that revolves exclusively around health while forbidding many activities such as drinking or taking recreational drugs. Such activities society used to view as not only enjoyable but also important rites of passage.

Many American universities now require students to sign a wellness contract upon enrollment. Students pledge to abstain from alcohol and drugs and devote themselves to living healthily.

Yet these straight-edge students will undoubtedly miss out on youthful experiences that once inspired society’s greatest thinkers. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre famously indulged in coffee, cigarettes and alcohol while at school, his circle of friends enjoying discussions of absurdity and revolution.

Such experiences were mind-expanding! Contemporary students of philosophy pushed to follow the tenets of wellness might miss out.

Slim and fit are “good,” fat is lazy and bad. Society now equates healthy living with morality.

So it’s clear that being obsessed with health isn’t healthy. But shouldn’t this at least mean the end of people judging a person’s character based on physical appearance?

Well, not exactly. People now face a moral imperative from society to be both healthy and happy.

The pressures of wellness can make you feel anxious or guilty, leading you to overexert yourself.

Wellness as an ideology works against itself. When we try to follow its tenets and “feel better,” in reality, our quest for wellness can make us feel worse.

We put intense pressure on ourselves to adhere to a wellness doctrine by eating correctly and exercising. All of this stress compounds, leaving us full of guilt and self-blame anytime we might slip off base and “cheat” with unhealthy foods or skipping a workout session.

Companies use wellness to shift responsibility to employees and make everyone work harder.

Most major companies today offer employees courses to learn how to relax or quit smoking. Many also have set up private gyms for employee use. Such caring gestures are appreciated; who doesn’t want a boss who clearly cares about your well-being?

There is, however, a dark side to wellness at work.

Politicians have used the tenets of wellness to justify cutbacks in welfare and other social benefits.

A wellness ideology is also a powerful tool in politics, especially for politicians who necessarily want to distract or divert attention from one issue to another.

After all, wellness is a spiritual quest for health and happiness or personal well-being. Politics, on the other hand, requires collective thinking to improve the state of a nation.

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The Wellness Syndrome (2015) explains why a health craze that’s sweeping the world may not be all that healthy for you. These blinks get to the root of why we’re obsessed with making ourselves happier, healthier and harder-working – and who is reaping the benefits of this obsession.

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When health becomes an ideology, the failure to conform becomes a stigma.

—Carl Cederström and André Spicer

Wer The Wellness Syndrome lesen sollte

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Über den Autor

Carl Cederström is an associate professor of organization theory at Stockholm University. His work has been published in the Guardian, the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review.

André Spicer is a leading thinker on subjects such as organizational behavior, leadership and corporate responsibility. He is a professor of organizational behavior at Cass Business School at City, University of London and the founding director of ETHOS: The Center for Responsible Enterprise at the University.

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