Diet Culture and Its Impact

Diet culture convinces us that we need to put forward a particular image of ourselves as attractive and as thin. When we see this content enough, we begin to normalize it. Diet culture exerts almost maximum control over our behaviors in childhood and teenage years. Those who match the idealization of thinness and looking a certain way are praised. They can fit into traditional clothing sizes they've represented in the media. And those who don't meet that ideal,. who push back against that norm are told that they're lazy or made to feel uncomfortable.