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What is Diet Culture?
Todays #mondaymotivation is to 1) talk about exactly what diet culture is and 2) help you break free from it. Diet culture is the movement behind the 'fat' stigma---that only healthy bodies are skinny. In healthcare, we know that one health indicator is BMI. BMI can be very helpful in gauging some idea of an individual's body type-- however, it can be incredibly misleading. For example, many athletes with a high muscle mass will naturally fall into an overweight category. Doe