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Justine Toh on wellness culture as the new religion

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We may have left behind traditional religion but can we outrun our religious impulses?(Supertsock / Getty images)

Wellness culture and its allure of health and happiness offers a substitute for the meaning and solace once found in traditional religion. We appear to have traded God for good living, and it's keeping Justine Toh awake.

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