You can kick diet culture out of your diet, experts say. Here's where to start
You can kick diet culture out of your diet, experts say. Here's where to start
- March 21, 2022
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, CNN, March 21, 2022
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Much of the world is entrenched in ideas that controlling food and movement to get
closer to an ideal body type is the way to go -- even if it doesn't lead to healthy
choices, said Sabrina Strings, an associate professor of sociology at the University
of California, Irvine. "The vast majority of the public is influenced by diet culture,"
said Strings, author of "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia."
"I think it is the overarching experience of our lives living in the West."
For the full story, please visit https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/21/health/diet-culture-body-image-wellness/index.html.
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