Reshaping our Definition of “Diet Culture”
Authored by: Srijita Kommaraju Art by: Kaitlyn Truong Diet culture is advertised as the solution to many chronic health problems, including obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, but a lot of research suggests it can actually increase the rates of chronic disease instead of preventing it. But how can dieting, a phenomenon so glorified in society, actually be harmful to human health? By pushing repeated dieting, glorifying thinness, and normalizing judgment of larger bodies, diet culture...