As you can see from this quick trip through the history of diet culture, it’s very much a system of oppression, with its roots in racist, sexist beliefs about food and bodies. Over time, those roots have become increasingly obscured by the ever-changing, ever-subtler, and seemingly benign ways that diet culture shows up in the world. Although some of that obscuring occurs simply because diet culture has become the default point of view in Western society—the water we’ve all been swimming in since birth, without realizing it—there are other, more nefarious reasons why it can be hard to
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