Is Diet Culture Controlling Our Behaviors?

Foods don't come with moral labels like good or bad. We don't need to demonize any form of food. All foods are good and they all have their benefits. There's a lot of research on this that shows that displaying calories on labels and in restaurants can actually be incredibly triggering for people with anorexia and bulimia. This kind of general and prolific display of calorie information, it implicitly tells us that calories are something we should care about. And it also can grossly contribute to excessive calorie counting. Food becomes synonymous without physical appearance and it becomes a tool to manipulate to achieve our dream body or to look thin rather than its organic and normal purpose as energy and as fuel