The Wellness Emperor Has No Clothes is the theme of Al Lewiss and Vik Khannas writings, and it gets a new treatment in their latest book, Surviving Workplace Wellness. This spin on the theme is meant for the employees whose dignity, finances and major organs are at stake. The target audience will get a few laughs and some basic understanding of wellnesss flaws.
The chapters go through the employer rationale, the typical health risk assessment (HRA), the downside of preventive screenings, and the very slim upside of superficial health advice. It paints a stark unflattering picture of the wellness sales industry. One chapter is titled, Its Time for the Wellness Industry to Admit to Doping. Indeed, math and science seem to be largely absent from wellness program design and implementation. In fact, the book coins a nifty new phrase to describe wellness worshipers: ignorati, those who are deliberately, selectively immune from science.
