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The Cult of Diet Culture

Sounds Like A Cult

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Diet Your Way Out of Being a Bad, Defective Person

"I really want to talk about where our contemporary diet culture comes from," she says. "A lot of capitalistic cults in the US diet culture has roots in the Protestant religion." The idea that you can diet your way out of being a bad, sinful, defective person is rooted in earlier American Protestantism: gluttony is a deadly sin.

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