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The Cult of Diet Culture

Sounds Like A Cult

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Fat Phobia Is a Cult Culture

I remember the Atkins diet so vividly and like, yes, fucking stank. Fat phobia is a cult. Yes. And if you leave it, they will punish and abandon you. Like we saw that in the media recently nobody with bodies that are bigger than a certain size,. Nobody of a different ethnicity, it's like you get erased. That is the way in which you are punished. You are treated like you are not even human. But also it's a giant cult culture and it has these kind of sub cults within it that keep rising. So that can be keep the cult of keto, thecult of paleo, the cult of these new weight loss injections.

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