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Diet Culture 101

Diet culture is the worshiping of thinness and equating thinness to health and moral virtue. This definition means you can spend the rest of your life thinking you're broken and unable to be fixed just because you do not fit diet cultures impossible thin "ideal".

How does diet culture control people?

Diet culture says that to attain a higher status, you must lose weight. This means you feel the need to spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and money trying to shrink your body, even though.

Demonizes Certain Ways Of Eating While Elevating Others

This forces you to be hyper-focused about your eating, be ashamed of certain food  choices, and forces you to be distracted from your pleasure, your purpose, and your power.

Oppression Of Those Who Don't Match With It's Picture Of "Health"

This oppression disproportionately harms women, femmes, trans individuals, people in larger bodies, people of color, and people with disabilities, damaging both mental and physical health.

Situations You May Experience Influenced By Diet Culture

  • Weigh-ins in public schools
  • Comments on food choices
  • Pressure to fit the "runners body"
  • Pressure on new mom's to "get their bodies back"
Resource: Tribole, E., & Resch, E. (2020). In Intuitive Eating:An Anti-Diet Revolutionary Approach. St.Martin's Essentials. 

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