The line between eating ‘healthy’ and it becoming an unhealthy obsession, which impedes quality of life and mental health, can be hard to distinguish. In this blog, I share my…
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DIET CULTURE
Diet culture is founded on the belief system that our eating predetermines our weight, shape and size, which are considered measures of our health and self-worth. Although diet culture promotes weight loss, it isn’t just about ‘being on a diet’. It encompasses any thinking that aligns with the culture of dieting; that is eating or other lifestyle behaviours to control our body’s health or appearance. Despite the declaration that ‘it’s not a diet’, many lifestyle programs, elimination protocols, cleaning eating and detoxes are diet culture in disguise.
Warning: This blog intends to express how gender norms influence food choice, not to portray gender as binary. Apologies for the gender stereotyping! Although intended as a tongue-in-cheek idiom, Real…
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9 Ways to Reveal a Diet in Disguise
by Tansy Boggonby Tansy BoggonAlthough many healthy lifestyle programs state, ‘it’s not a diet’, the belief that being overweight is unhealthy remains. It promises weight loss? It’s a diet. Weight loss is frequently listed…
Have you justified your eating to your dining companions, waiting staff or complete strangers because you feel guilty or ashamed of your choices? Why do you think that is? While…
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Imagine a Diet Free Culture
by Tansy Boggonby Tansy BoggonImagine a diet free culture where we could enjoy time out with friends and family without justifying our food choices or feeling we have to ‘burn it off’ later or…