By Dr Sonia Szamocki

As the year wraps up, people begin to look beyond the celebration and excess of December towards the moderation of January, more and more seen as a chance to detox and reset.

While many of these ‘New Year, New Me’ impulses can have positive outcomes - encouraging people to cut down on their drink, take up exercise, or be more mindful about their vices - it can also push people down more extreme avenues.

If I have a major concern about focusing one's betterment so intensely around a January reset, it’s that it encourages a quick fix.

These take the form of not just extreme short-term diets or exercise regimens but the adoption of dangerous and ineffective cosmetic treatments, promised as an easy way to achieve a desired look.

Those peddling health misinformation and often unregulated,........

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