How the obsession with healthy weight is wrong – and why some people say you should rethink that January diet

In most cultures it’s bad to be fat. Rarely is this more apparent than at the start of the new year, when diet culture, fatphobia and capitalism converge. Exploiting body shame and people’s desire for renewal, weight-loss companies ramp up ads, gyms reduce rates and diet companies promise to help people realise the elusive goal of lasting weight loss.Sociologists and medical professionals say this yearly cycle underscores society’s obsession with thinness and fuels dangerous misperceptions…

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