Diet culture is often ingrained in our ways of thinking before we're even aware of it. We are appraising our bodies in a way that covets finness and certain beauty standards, particularly above our emotional and mental well-being. When parents restrict the foods their children eat on a regular basis or label certain foods as off limits or as bad, often what occurs is a disordered way of seeing these foods. Children almost worship them, they see them as something that's off limits and as such something that must be really valuable if they can't have it all the time. The food begins to control us because we've never been able to have a healthy relationship with it due to restrictions