2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
I'm not against diets because diets don't work.
I am not against dieting because it is a waste of time, money and vitality.
Yes, it's all true. But there is something deeper that I have studied in the past year: I am critical of dietary culture because I believe it is incredibly harmful to us both individually and collectively.
Diet culture tells us that we cannot trust our own bodies … that we cannot know what is best for ourselves, so we must trust and trust someone else. It demands excellence … in the way we eat, exercise and explore our bodies. Convinces us that losing weight is our life's work. She uses words and images to convince us that our value as HUMAN BEINGS lies primarily in our bodies.
Diet culture uses fear of overweight to reinforce the hierarchy of bodies.
And for people who are constantly displaced by race, gender, ability, or sexuality, our cultural obsession with weight can complicate matters.
Of course, I cannot and will not speak for everyone, but, being a black woman, I know first-hand what it feels like to remind me where I fit into the hierarchy. And this place is not at the top.
I know how it feels when they tell me that there is something better and more worthy, and I have to spend my whole life striving for this.
These messages can lead to significant self-denial and invalidity. And in my experience, dieting just adds another layer to my not being good enough. She joins the chorus of outer voices telling me that something is wrong with my body, it is essential.
It is painful and exhausting. And it has nothing to do with health and wellness. It all looks like an attack on our humanity. And it feels manipulative and exploitative, unfair and immoral.
We all deserve to know what it is like to be an imperfect, embodied, self-determined person whose value is not determined by the body we have.
Melissa Toler, translation by Marina Fateeva specially for the Association of Physicians and Psychologists "RPP: therapy and prevention"
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