- 1. 5 Creators Fighting Diet Culture That Go Beyond Body Positivity
- (Living)
- ... with poor body image and disordered eating and exercise habits due to the toxic, appearance-obsessed culture of fitness influencers, she’s made a career out of teaching others about the positive physical ...
- Created on 26 January 2023
- 2. How the Recent AI-Generated Avatar Trend Perpetuates the Western Male Gaze
- (Feminism)
- If you’re active on social media, chances are that your feeds have been flooded with AI-generated artsy pictures of the people you know. It’s also likely that you’ve downloaded Lensa and participated ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 3. 5 Times Pretty Little Liars Was Problematic As Hell
- (TV)
- ... that “35-57% of adolescent girls engage in crash dieting, fasting, self-induced vomiting, diet pills, or laxatives”. When your target demographic is the same group most likely to suffer from disordered ...
- Created on 12 July 2022
- 4. Noom, The Toxic Weight-Loss App That Claims Not To Be A Dieting Program, Is Being Called Out On Twitter
- (Living)
- ... since downloading the app. One user even suggested that she believes that Noom is targeted to people with histories of disordered eating. In one sponsored Noom ad on Instagram, a tall, thick stack of ...
- Created on 03 February 2022
- 5. Norway Passes New Law Banning PhotoShop Among Social Media Influencers
- (Living)
- ... between social media, body dysmorphia and disordered eating. One study looked at 1,000 middle schoolers, and found that a greater number of social media accounts was associated with a higher frequency ...
- Created on 22 July 2021
- 6. Quarantine Holds Different Hardships For Those With Eating Disorders
- (Living)
- ... to recovery. Eating disorders are typically defined as disorders related to “unhealthy, obsessive or disordered” eating and exercise habits—the most commonly known types being anorexia and bulimia nervosa. ...
- Created on 15 June 2020
- 7. Instagram, National Eating Disorder Association and Body Positive Activists Come Together for #ComeAsYouAre Campaign
- (Feminism)
- ... photographs of idealistic body types littered the platform along with hidden hashtags that supported, if not encouraged, disordered eating. While this kind of content can still be found on the app, a movement ...
- Created on 26 February 2020
- 8. Historically, Dieting Has Always Been The Worst
- (Living)
- ... BUST I Couldn't See What Dieting Cost Me Until I Gave It Up "Intermittent Fasting" Diets Glamorize Disordered Eating Weight Watchers Is Offering Free Membership To Teens — And That’s a Problem ...
- Created on 08 August 2019
- 9. Macy’s And Forever 21 Tried To Serve Fatphobia—Customers Didn’t Bite
- (Feminism)
- ... both mega-retailers have thoughtlessly promoted body dissatisfaction to their largely female consumer base, with Macy’s releasing a dinnerware collection featuring different portion sizes and touting disordered ...
- Created on 24 July 2019
- 10. Here's Why the Klobuchar-Salad-Comb Fiasco Is Sexis
- (Feminism)
- ... That my clothes were dirty, perhaps that my home was messy, perhaps that I myself, by extension, was dirty and disordered. I had, almost literally, ‘aired my dirty laundry in public.’ My male colleague’s ...
- Created on 04 March 2019
- 11. "Intermittent Fasting" Diets Glamorize Disordered Eatin
- (Feminism)
- ... a survey conducted in 2008 by SELF magazine in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that 75% of women have disordered relationships with food. Among other things, this ...
- Created on 02 October 2018
- 12. Portia de Rossi On Eating Disorder Recovery, Coming Out, And Falling In Love: From The BUST Archives
- (Entertainment)
- ... fat and starve themselves for a couple of days to try to look thinner. If you have ever been on a diet, you have experienced a form of disordered eating, because you’re eating when you’re not hungry and ...
- Created on 30 August 2018
- 13. Weight Watchers Is Offering Free Membership To Teens — And That’s a Problem.
- (Feminism)
- ... of stories about the onset of disordered eating. The [vast] majority of stories include the ‘innocent’ diet that opened the flood gates to a full blown eating disorder.” Diets have the power to damage ...
- Created on 20 February 2018
- 14. Google Maps Wanted To Measure Your Calories In Mini Cupcakes – But Were Stopped For This Reason
- (General)
- ... mortality rate of any mental illness (on average, one person dies every hour from an eating disorder in the United States). Triggering eating disordered behavior is not something any company should strive ...
- Created on 17 October 2017
- 15. Troian Bellisario's "Feed" Is A Psychological Thriller Exploring Grief And Eating Disorders: Revi
- (Movies)
- ... bluster about making sure his daughter is home on time. Bellisario has been quite open about her struggles with disordered eating during the press for Feed, even writing a devastating Lenny Letter in ...
- Created on 30 August 2017
- 16. I Love My Body And I'm No Longer Embarrassed To Show It Of
- (Feminism)
- ... and feel about my body. I’ve gone from yo-yo dieting, disordered eating, and choosing clothes to specifically hide "problem" areas to being a woman who no longer believes there are any "bad" body parts. ...
- Created on 18 July 2016
- 17. Orthorexia And Social Media: What You Need To Know About The 'Clean' Eating Disorder ...
- (Living)
- ... The answer to self-doubt, to anxiety, to worth, to the reason why X, Y or Z happened. Disordered eating habits like orthorexia are an unfortunate side effect in a world that demands perfection. Food ...
- Created on 05 November 2015
- 18. Is Your Yoga Practice Making You Harder On Your Body?
- (Living)
- Believe it or not, yoga hasn’t always been about perfectly toned buns and sparkly outer space leggings: The practice has only recently been connected to materialistic culture and image. In the late ...
- Created on 23 April 2015
- 19. 5 Theories Explaining Why Low Self-Esteem is a Teen Epidemic
- (General)
- ... than you do on yours, this hardly seems to be enough motivation to be ‘good enough’ that it could cause a severe drop in self-esteem and/or disordered eating. According to this article, more teens are ...
- Created on 09 July 2014
- 20. Uhm, No: What This Salon Writer Got Very Wrong About Weight Loss and Body Image
- (Feminism)
- ... school ages or younger are already dieting? Can we just, for one more second, discuss the popularity of ProAna blogs, FITSPO-mania, and the rampant amounts of disordered eating in our country dependent ...
- Created on 25 February 2014
