Alnes Jacqueline
Alnes Jacqueline - The Fruit Cure The Story Of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour - Hardcover
Alnes Jacqueline - The Fruit Cure The Story Of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour - Hardcover
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Description: Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Her symptoms were first dismissed by her coach and her doctor. Two years after quitting the team to heal Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. Desperate for answers she turned to an online community centered around two wellness gurus who claimed without any evidence that a strict all - fruit diet could cure conditions like depression eating disorders addiction anxiety and vision problems. Alnes wasn't alone. From all over the world people in pain doubted or dismissed by medical authorities or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white Western expectations placed on their figures turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies. In The Fruit Cure Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the world of fruitarianism interweaving her own powerful narrative with the popularity and problematic history of fruit - based raw food lifestyles. For readers plagued by mysterious symptoms inundated by messages from media about how to attain 'the perfect body or caught in the grips of a fast - paced culture of capitalism The Fruit Cure offers a powerful critique of the failures of healthcare systems and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people's vulnerabilities through schemes scams and diets masquerading as hope.
Title: The Fruit Cure The Story Of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour
Author(s): Alnes Jacqueline
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Barcode: 9781685890759
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 1/23/2024
Category: Memoirs
Description: Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Her symptoms were first dismissed by her coach and her doctor. Two years after quitting the team to heal Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. Desperate for answers she turned to an online community centered around two wellness gurus who claimed without any evidence that a strict all - fruit diet could cure conditions like depression eating disorders addiction anxiety and vision problems. Alnes wasn't alone. From all over the world people in pain doubted or dismissed by medical authorities or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white Western expectations placed on their figures turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies. In The Fruit Cure Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the world of fruitarianism interweaving her own powerful narrative with the popularity and problematic history of fruit - based raw food lifestyles. For readers plagued by mysterious symptoms inundated by messages from media about how to attain 'the perfect body or caught in the grips of a fast - paced culture of capitalism The Fruit Cure offers a powerful critique of the failures of healthcare systems and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people's vulnerabilities through schemes scams and diets masquerading as hope.
Title: The Fruit Cure The Story Of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour
Author(s): Alnes Jacqueline
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Barcode: 9781685890759
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 1/23/2024
Category: Memoirs
