Cole Kazdin
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What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
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2023
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The Moth: Sick Medicines and Maladies
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“It’s hard to know at what point “watching what you eat� or “getting healthy� becomes an eating disorder.”
― What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
― What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
“The body neutrality movement alleviates some of that beauty pressure, advancing the notion that self-love doesn’t have to be the goal, and that a person can take care of and appreciate their body, without loving it or thinking about it too much. “Imagine just not thinking about your body,� actor Jameela Jamil told Glamour in 2019.3 “You’re not hating it. You’re not loving it. You’re just a floating head.”
― What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
― What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
“Back to that term “normative discontent”—as in, it’s totally normal to dislike your body, everyone’s doing it. It was coined by researchers to describe how prevalent women’s body dissatisfaction is, for all women, at all sizes. If an estimated 90 percent of women aren’t satisfied with their bodies, then statistically speaking, if a woman is happy with her body, comfortable in her skin, and satisfied with the way she looks, she’s basically on the fringes of society. Atypical.”
― What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
― What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
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