Diet culture is rooted in fatphobia, but it's often disguised as health and wellness. The vast diet industry benefits from our insecurity and our fear of being perceived as overweight or as fat. Just because you are a naturally petite person or your thin doesn't mean you have to feel any shame at all that your body happens to conform with beauty standards. We all come in different forms where we are all beautiful at our core.
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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