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title: diet culture
date: 2024-02-15T11:07:00-05:00
author: Grace Koch
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[Health & Sexuality Info](/health-info)# diet culture

Diet culture tells us that being thin equals beauty and health, and being fat equals ugliness and illness. Dieting to lose weight, or maintain a low weight, are seen as required to be and be viewed as good, worthy, respectable people. Diet culture is connected to fatphobia, and leads to self-disdain, as well as huge wastes of time, money, and energy in the never ending quest for thinness.

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