Why Have Women Taken To Wellness?

The Why Factor

• Episode: Why Have Women Taken To Wellness?
• Website: The Why Factor
• Feed URL: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p00xtky9.rss
• Duration: 00:23:12
• Published: 2018-10-22 15:00

Women are increasingly seeking out ways to look after their minds, bodies and emotions. Nutrition and lifestyle changes - from meditating to drinking green smoothies full of so-called super foods - all come under the term wellness.

There are wellness celebrities and online communities, observers even refer to a wellness industry.

Nastaran Tavakoli-Far asks what is driving women away from the medical establishment in an effort to improve their health.

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