In my latest posts, I’ve been raising awareness about the caveats of “clean eating” and the desire to “purify” our bodies. Specifically, I’ve been exploring how diet culture messages are dominating these wellness approaches causing harm to our health.
Many are unaware that there are dangers to how we advocate for these practices to aid health and the body’s elimination processes. These include:
- The economic strain on manufacturers to remove chemicals in consumer goods, resulting in higher prices
- An increase in health anxiety in the economically disadvantaged who cannot afford expensive detoxifying protocols
- An increase in food morality and healthism
- The fueling of eating disorders
In my previous video blog, I dived deeper into the connection between food morality, eating disorders, and diet culture. To review, the topics covered were:
- How diet culture damages our relationship to our bodies and food
- How obsession with purifying our lives and dietary cleanliness can result in a deadly mental health disorder
- How food restriction is linked to “food addiction”
- How we can be healthy in a toxic world without giving into diet culture
In my most recent video post, I highlight more detrimental impacts of diet culture’s emphasis on food purity and the idealization of slim body shapes.
Subjects include:
- The dangers of body size stigma
- The harms of shaming people into better health
- How fatphobia causes suboptimal healthcare recommendations
- An overlooked lurking variable in “obesity” research
- How society’s obsession with thinness is killing us
- A true picture of health
Click here to access the full video and additional resources.
After reading the blog or watching the video, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
I believe it is possible to support our natural ability to detoxify ourselves of toxins while also nourishing our bodies with foods that feel good and support our biology, psychology, and pleasure.
Thank you so much for taking the time to learn how to nurture your mind, body, heart, and soul.
Sending you many blessings. ❤
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