fitness culture

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Dieted: Unlearning Lessons From Thin-Obsessed Culture

Anita Rao

Diet culture is the water we're all swimming in. Anita unpacks the science that props it up with a registered dietician and certified internal medicine physician. She also hears how folks are pushing back against the ways it manifests in the doctor's office, on the trails, and in the gym.

Deconstructing Diet Culture: Lessons Unlearned From a Thin-Obsessed Society

Charlie Shelton-Ormond

Diet culture is everywhere. It affects the care we get at the doctor's office and our experience in fitness spaces. And we may be misunderstanding the science used to uphold moral standards of weight and health.

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Fitness Culture, Deconstructed: No, You Don’t Have To ‘Burn It To Earn It’

Kaia Findlay

Gyms and fitness spaces have long been spaces for white, heteronormative and able-bodied people. The inclusive fitness movement aims to break down that fitness culture to make movement accessible to all bodies, and to celebrate movement for reasons other than changing your body to look like something it’s not.