Diet Culture

Diet culture is the pervasive environment of weight-focused messaging — intensified online by algorithmically curated fitness, diet, and transformation content — that can drive restrictive patterns, body shame, and eating-disorder risk. Evidence-based supports include body-image-focused therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), eating-disorder-informed care, and Health at Every Size-aligned approaches. Offline.now lists a growing network of licensed therapists who work with diet culture distress.