For many years of my life, I ate according to what others dictated I should eat—and I ate according to whatever number registered on a scale on any given day.
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Trapped by Diet Culture
I fell prey to diet culture soon after I lost 100 pounds in my late 40s. It blindsided me without warning.
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Why Diets, Detoxes, and Boot Camps Don't Work for Tens of Thousands of People
What many parents, relatives, spouses, friends, coworkers, physicians don’t understand.—no matter the size of a person—anyone can be suffering from an underlying eating disorder without others ever knowing about it.
And no amount of dieting, food scarcity, or food abundance can fix it.
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Who is Aesthetically Beautiful?
Who is aesthetically beautiful?
A perfectly chiseled woman; plump breasts, hour-glass figure, pleasant facial features, silken skin and shiny raven hair. . . who’s had liposuction, breast augmentation, and tattooed eyebrows; who dyes her hair to hide ashen gray roots; wears padded butt cheeks; and pays for astronomically expensive laser treatments to reveal wrinkle free flesh?