Cults with Amanda Montell
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
Diet Culture and Fitness Culture
In the US, our ultimate religion is self improvement, right? And diet culture and fitness culture is almost a religion for us. It connects these sort of secular American values like productivity and individualism to sort of religious aspects being beautiful because you are made in God's image and God's image is beautiful. But I there's also kind of like the cult of white supremacy that is kind of unfortunately married with the kind of religious history of the United States.
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