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Veganism: A First-World Luxury

Polymathic Being • 106 implied HN points • 02 Feb 25
🍲 Food & Drink Veganism Nutrition Diet Culture Food Processing
  1. You can't rely only on whole plant foods for a vegan diet. You need extra supplements to get enough nutrients.
  2. Global trade is really important for a vegan diet. Many of the foods vegans eat come from different parts of the world and weren't available in the past.
  3. To get the right nutrition on a vegan diet, high-tech processing is often necessary. This means lots of chemicals and advanced techniques to create the foods.

The Burnt Toast Guide to Weight and Health

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith • 3439 implied HN points • 27 Jun 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Health Education Body positivity Weight Loss Fat Liberation Diet Culture
  1. The Burnt Toast community welcomes people at different stages of understanding fat liberation and diet culture.
  2. The conversation about weight and health often confuses correlation with causation.
  3. Weight loss doesn't always lead to better health and can have risks, so the focus shouldn't solely be on losing weight.

Michelle Obama Is Not Coming To Save Us

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith • 2810 implied HN points • 23 May 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Nutrition Diet Culture Body Image Fitness
  1. Michelle Obama has launched a brand called Plezi Nutrition focused on selling healthier products for kids
  2. Critics have raised concerns about the messaging and effectiveness of Plezi in addressing children's health
  3. Plezi has sparked debate on diet culture, marketing tactics, and societal responsibility in promoting healthy eating
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Reader Question - Dealing with Diet Culture at the Holidays

Weight and Healthcare • 758 implied HN points • 22 Nov 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Diet Culture Holidays Boundaries Body Image Support
  1. During the holiday season, there is often an increase in diet culture behaviors like food policing and body shaming.
  2. Strategies like ignoring/responding silently, setting boundaries, and engaging in conversations can help navigate inappropriate comments about food and body during gatherings.
  3. It's important to prioritize enjoying meals in peace and remember that others' opinions about our food choices are not our concern.

How to Tell If A "Weight Bias" Training Is Diet Culture in Disguise

Weight and Healthcare • 479 implied HN points • 10 Dec 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Diet Culture Health Education
  1. Be cautious of 'anti-weight bias' trainings that may actually promote diet culture under the guise of reducing weight stigma.
  2. Watch out for red flags like trainers with ties to the weight loss industry, pathologizing language, and the belief that weight loss is the solution to weight stigma.
  3. True anti-weight bias trainings should focus on de-pathologizing fatness and creating a world that fully affirms and accommodates fat people.

Ghosts of Diet Culture Yet to Come

Weight and Healthcare • 419 implied HN points • 31 Dec 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Diet Culture Weight Stigma Healthcare Industry Fat Activism Body positivity
  1. Push back against the diet industry's attempts to frame higher weight as a chronic health condition.
  2. Refuse to participate in and call out the co-option of anti-weight stigma language by the diet industry to sell products.
  3. Support creating a culture shift away from harmful diet culture practices and work towards stopping the weight loss industry.

Ways We Might Be Unintentionally Participating In Weight Stigma and Diet Culture

Weight and Healthcare • 399 implied HN points • 01 Oct 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Weight Stigma Diet Culture Fat Activism Healthcare Self-reflection
  1. Complimenting Weight Lost can reinforce harmful beliefs and set people up for disappointment when weight is regained.
  2. Supporting Inequality by expecting fat individuals to change themselves for healthcare tools is harmful and unfair.
  3. Avoid hypocritical behavior and Blaming Fat Bodies, healthcare practitioners should practice weight-neutral health for all patients, regardless of size.