Chapter 4: - Cancel Diet Culture

Summary

• Diet culture is a collection of ideas and values prizing thinness, erroneously equating health with thinness, and suggesting that our body sizes and shapes are changeable – if we just try hard enough.

• Dieting has been shown to be ineffective and is often more likely to lead to weight gain than loss over time.

• There are many negative consequences associated with following food fads and diets, from the distraction they create in our lives to the money they cost us.

• It is possible to change your eating and activity behaviors and doing so may improve your health, but may not necessarily change your body size and shape significantly.