About Amelia McNew, PhD

I'm a researcher, writer, and editor. I have over 20 years of editorial experience and hold bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in nutrition science.

My research asks the questions that wellness wants to avoid: Who does it really work for? Who gets harmed in the process? Who pays... and who profits? For my dissertation, I analyzed 13 popular MS diet books and ultimately produced a new theory for understanding wellness culture: wellgenics. I continue to study wellness books, health media, and diet culture. You can find my ongoing study results at Ethics in Nutrition. Here at Factual Wellness, I break down pop-culture wellness myths and review nutrition studies through the eyes of an academic who has also lived the chronic illness life.

In addition to being an active researcher and educator, I am an academic editor who works with individuals and organizations. I specialize in literature reviews and narrative support for methodology, results, and discussion sections, particularly for health sciences, social sciences, and education. I am an expert in general qualitative methods, narrative inquiry, and reflexive thematic analysis.

I have a PhD in Nutrition Science because, when I started, I thought I would cure myself. In reality, I found freedom through realizing that what wellness presents as truth is really more a trick of the light.