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TW: Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating Content & Body Dysmorphia

Time to break down diet culture. Even if you’ve never heard of this term, you are probably very familiar with the diet culture environment. You see it online, in conversation with your friends, and especially in Asian family settings. But it’s important to actually understand what it means in order to stop it from potentially taking over your life.

Disclaimer:  These are our personal opinions based on our experiences and our background in nutrition, we are not licensed professionals. For professional advice, please speak to your dietician or family doctor.

Part 1: What is Diet Culture? 

• Promotes the idea that there is an “ideal body shape”
• Found everywhere: apple cider vinegar, keto diets, detox teas, etc.
• Society conditioned us to be obsessed with what we eat and what we look like in order to achieve “happiness” and causes an abundance of consequences
  

Part 2: Our Experience With Diet Culture

• Georgia discusses body confidence and her eating habits 
• Arlene shares her ED story and how it affected her mental health
  

Part 3: Why It's Important & How to Combat Diet Culture

• Plays a major role in perpetuating eating disorders, weight stigma, and fatphobia
• Try not to categorize food as “good” and “bad”  and understand that different foods provide different nutrients
• Practice eating intuitively, listening to your body cues and mindful eating
  

Articles referenced & informative resources:

What Is Diet Culture? 

The Fuck It Diet ®

Christy Harrison - Intuitive Eating Dietitian, Anti-Diet Author, & Health at Every Size Advocate - Food Psych Programs

Free Method Nutrition

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Hosts - Arlene & Georgia

Music - Benji by Dyalla

Cover Art - Saki & Newton

We would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations.