The need for social approval sustains things like diet culture. It's no longer about how much you weigh, it's about what your appearance means to society. Diet culture is often an excuse to engage in the kind of fatphobia that is promoted by diet culture. Although the facade of diet culture is often marketed as wellness and fitness and lifestyle friendly, instead it can become all consuming.
This week we discuss the insidious nature of diet culture and how it convinces us we need to change our bodies to be happier. We discuss how diet culture has become so influential through normalisation, repetition across social media, social approval and early learning in childhood. Finally we talk about how to push back against the negative beliefs and behaviours ingrained in us by diet culture and embrace our bodies.
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