NFS 244 Lecture 13: Lecture 13
15 Aug 2020
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Promotes weight loss as a means of achieving higher status. Demonizes certain ways of eating and encourages others. Time spent shrinking, sculpting, feeling badly, depriving yourself of joy. Stunkard- found that 95% of weight loss efforts fail. National weight control registry: 10,000 success stories = 0. 005% of all dieters. Success stories often exhibit really restrictive behaviors. We each have an individual weight range our body wants to be at. Your body will fight to stay there. Diet programs, surgery, gyms, diet foods, weight loss programs, books, shape wear. Americans spend billion on the diet industry each year. Worldwide billion spent on the diet industry. Media industry makes money off the diet culture. Wellness can be expensive and also performative. It"s your fault if you dont meet diet culture"s standards. Weight stigma makes it more likely people will skip medical care. Weight stigma itself is associated with negative physical and psychological outcomes.
