Vol. I - The Argument
Food
is the
symptom.
Most "food problems" aren't food problems. They're system problems - workload, environment, industry incentives, bad advice.
Editor's Note
The wellness industry has spent two decades insisting your willpower is the problem. It isn't.
The problem is that food sits at the end of a long chain of pressures -
workload, environment, industry incentives, bad advice - and almost no
one is willing to name them. This site is the place I name them.
I'm Charlie Beestone. I've been a nutritionist for over a decade. I write the Food is the Symptom newsletter and speak to teams who are tired of being sold transformations.
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