#The Guardian
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What proteinmaxxing is asking wellness to admit
Proteinmaxxing has turned whey into a wellness doctrine, exposing the muscle-loss fear, GLP-1 logic and marketing hustle underneath.
What Western trauma talk misses when recovery looks different
Trauma recovery can look less like confession and more like family, faith and steadiness. Australia’s care system needs to notice.
The soft-focus language that nearly swallowed Hannah Murray
Hannah Murray’s wellness cult memoir traces how healing language, shame and certainty can blur into control long before anyone calls it danger.
What Wegovy is doing to beauty standards
GLP-1 beauty standards are remaking the face women are meant to want, turning rapid weight loss into a polished new aesthetic ideal.
The chatbot beauty standard was always going to end up in a surgeon’s office
AI face beauty standards are landing in plastic surgery consults, where surgeons must explain why a machine-smoothed face cannot exist on skin.
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The phone is not the enemy
Doomscrolling in 2026 is less about owning a phone than about how easily your attention gets turned into dread, habit and dead time.
Bluey was never meant to feel like content slurry
Bluey minisodes on Disney+ are only a few minutes long, but they sharpen a bigger worry: when a family ritual becomes platform upkeep.