Diet culture is rooted in racism, white supremacy, and colonialism

[1srelluc]

How Toxic Diet Culture is Rooted in Racism & White Supremacy

Toxic diet culture is a pervasive and insidious influence on our lives. Diet culture is fatphobic and upholds White supremacy while perpetuating systemic racism.

withinhealth.com

Suggesting that people who are overweight should try dieting to improve their health is now racist.

"Toxic diet culture is a pervasive and insidious influence on our lives. Many people may recognize its connection to fatphobia and its harmful consequences on body image, mental health, and eating patterns. But they may be less aware of its racist and White supremacist history and how diet culture continues to uphold White supremacy and perpetuate systemic racism to this day."

"When you or someone you know refers to a certain food as “good” or “bad,” this is diet culture at work. Diet culture harms us by wanting us to feel ashamed for eating foods we enjoy simply because they are labeled “junk.”

Here are some other common examples of toxic diet culture:

Any diet, “cleanse,” or “healthy eating lifestyle” that limits food intake, promotes fasting, or omits certain foods, food groups, or ingredients

Food labels saying “guilt-free,” “fat-free,” “low-carb,” “keto-approved,” “paleo-friendly,” etc.
Advertisements and programs for quick weight loss “cures”

The prevalence and success of social media fitness influencers

Before and after photos of weight loss

Weight loss apps, including those that promote eating and exercise programs that restrict food in any way as “lifestyle changes”

Restaurant menus that include calories next to food items

Weight loss competitions at the gym or work

Feeling ashamed or guilty for eating food you enjoy

Complimenting people for their weight loss

Conflating weight loss and “being your best self”

Society celebrating thin women celebrating body positivity while rejecting people in larger bodies who do the same.

This is now a mainstream concept, not just a few loony people. NPR spent an hour discussing it today.

These days everything that requires effort and/or responsibility is rooted in racism, white supremacy, and colonialism.....Clown World.

 

[Ralph Norton]

How Toxic Diet Culture is Rooted in Racism & White Supremacy

Toxic diet culture is a pervasive and insidious influence on our lives. Diet culture is fatphobic and upholds White supremacy while perpetuating systemic racism.

withinhealth.com

Suggesting that people who are overweight should try dieting to improve their health is now racist.

"Toxic diet culture is a pervasive and insidious influence on our lives. Many people may recognize its connection to fatphobia and its harmful consequences on body image, mental health, and eating patterns. But they may be less aware of its racist and White supremacist history and how diet culture continues to uphold White supremacy and perpetuate systemic racism to this day."

"When you or someone you know refers to a certain food as “good” or “bad,” this is diet culture at work. Diet culture harms us by wanting us to feel ashamed for eating foods we enjoy simply because they are labeled “junk.”

Here are some other common examples of toxic diet culture:

Any diet, “cleanse,” or “healthy eating lifestyle” that limits food intake, promotes fasting, or omits certain foods, food groups, or ingredients

Food labels saying “guilt-free,” “fat-free,” “low-carb,” “keto-approved,” “paleo-friendly,” etc.
Advertisements and programs for quick weight loss “cures”

The prevalence and success of social media fitness influencers

Before and after photos of weight loss

Weight loss apps, including those that promote eating and exercise programs that restrict food in any way as “lifestyle changes”

Restaurant menus that include calories next to food items

Weight loss competitions at the gym or work

Feeling ashamed or guilty for eating food you enjoy

Complimenting people for their weight loss

Conflating weight loss and “being your best self”

Society celebrating thin women celebrating body positivity while rejecting people in larger bodies who do the same.

This is now a mainstream concept, not just a few loony people. NPR spent an hour discussing it today.

These days everything that requires effort and/or responsibility is rooted in racism, white supremacy, and colonialism.....Clown World.

The degree of stupidity exhibited in this article is absolutely frightening yet it is, unfortunately, all too common these days.

 

[Woodznutz]

Fat becomes their identity. What's a person with no identity? This hasn't been lost on Madison Avenue, as more and more fat people are featured in ads. Overweight, crime, drugs; things that used to be looked down on are being normalized, even celebrated, in our culture.

 

[okfine]

Fat becomes their identity. What's person with no identity?

Are you asking the OP?

 

[Ralph Norton]

Fat becomes their identity. What's person with no identity?

C Clayton Jones?

 

[1srelluc]

So Alvin Bragg's nickname as Fat Bastard is wasist?

 

[AMart]

So is showing for work on time, getting good grades, jogging, you name it!!!!!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The black culture is one of immediate gratification. The concept of putting reward off or working for a greater reward is actually insulting.

There was an experiment in which two groups of children, black and white were offered candy. They could get one candy every day for a week, for a total of 7 candies or no daily candies but two candies for every day they waited for a total of 14 candies. The children in the black group took the daily candy. The white children chose to wait. At the end of the week, the black children got no candies. The white children each got 14 candies. The black children complained that this was racist and unfair. The white children should be forced to share.

This is the black philosophy. It's immediate gratification. Don't put off that cheesecake you may not get another, ever.

 

[Oddball]

How Toxic Diet Culture is Rooted in Racism & White Supremacy

Toxic diet culture is a pervasive and insidious influence on our lives. Diet culture is fatphobic and upholds White supremacy while perpetuating systemic racism.

withinhealth.com

Suggesting that people who are overweight should try dieting to improve their health is now racist.

"Toxic diet culture is a pervasive and insidious influence on our lives. Many people may recognize its connection to fatphobia and its harmful consequences on body image, mental health, and eating patterns. But they may be less aware of its racist and White supremacist history and how diet culture continues to uphold White supremacy and perpetuate systemic racism to this day."

"When you or someone you know refers to a certain food as “good” or “bad,” this is diet culture at work. Diet culture harms us by wanting us to feel ashamed for eating foods we enjoy simply because they are labeled “junk.”

Here are some other common examples of toxic diet culture:

Any diet, “cleanse,” or “healthy eating lifestyle” that limits food intake, promotes fasting, or omits certain foods, food groups, or ingredients

Food labels saying “guilt-free,” “fat-free,” “low-carb,” “keto-approved,” “paleo-friendly,” etc.
Advertisements and programs for quick weight loss “cures”

The prevalence and success of social media fitness influencers

Before and after photos of weight loss

Weight loss apps, including those that promote eating and exercise programs that restrict food in any way as “lifestyle changes”

Restaurant menus that include calories next to food items

Weight loss competitions at the gym or work

Feeling ashamed or guilty for eating food you enjoy

Complimenting people for their weight loss

Conflating weight loss and “being your best self”

Society celebrating thin women celebrating body positivity while rejecting people in larger bodies who do the same.

This is now a mainstream concept, not just a few loony people. NPR spent an hour discussing it today.

These days everything that requires effort and/or responsibility is rooted in racism, white supremacy, and colonialism.....Clown World.

Wouldn't be easier to list all the things that aren't wasis these days?

 

[Woodznutz]

The black culture is one of immediate gratification. The concept of putting reward off or working for a greater reward is actually insulting.

There was an experiment in which two groups of children, black and white were offered candy. They could get one candy every day for a week, for a total of 7 candies or no daily candies but two candies for every day they waited for a total of 14 candies. The children in the black group took the daily candy. The white children chose to wait. At the end of the week, the black children got no candies. The white children each got 14 candies. The black children complained that this was racist and unfair. The white children should be forced to share.

This is the black philosophy. It's immediate gratification. Don't put off that cheesecake you may not get another, ever.

That's also an indication of their economic evolution and progress.