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Dr Nikki Stamp: Why Instagram is making you sick

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Sat, 7 Sep 2019, 12:41PM

Dr Nikki Stamp: Why Instagram is making you sick

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sat, 7 Sep 2019, 12:41PM

If you’re on instagram, you’ve likely seen at least a few ‘wellness’ trends or products being pushed by influencers.

Think skinny tea or appetite suppressant lollipops.

But as cardiothoracic surgeon Nikki Stamp points out, despite this current obsession with wellness, as a population we’re decidedly not well at all.

She’s written a new book: "Pretty Unhealthy: Why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick".

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