Exactly Why Diet Culture Is So Damaging + A Functional Medicine Perspective On How To Overcome It
If you examine our culture long enough, you’ll see we have an obsession with diets. Whether you want to lose weight or get healthier, chances are there’s a diet out there claiming to help you achieve what you want.
As a functional medicine expert, I talk all the time about the importance of choosing healthy foods in order to support gut health and lower inflammation so you can live your healthiest life. However, it can be difficult to find a balance between caring about your health and what goes into your body without it becoming a damaging obsession.
See, when your relationship with food and how it makes you look becomes all encompassing, that’s diet culture at it’s finest. My desire is to eliminate diet dogma once and for all so that you can find what works best for you, and start enjoying food that fuels you, stress-free. But in order to do that we first need to understand what diet culture is and why it can be so damaging to our mental and physical well being.