I'm about 75% of the way through the new @MaintenancePod episode on Supersize Me, and it's been making me think of something I'd really like to hear @yrfatfriend and @RottenInDenmark take on: the way the language of addiction is ab/used around eating.
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maintenancephase.com
Like, if there's one thing you come to understand by listening to a lot of Maintenance Phase, it's that America has a *deeply* unhealthy relationship to food and weight.
And I'm noticing, in the media they talk about, when it's talking about fat people, or to people who want to lose weight, how there's this leitmotiv of "addiction," whether it's implicit or explicit.
Like people are addicted to food.
Like people are addicted to food.
And I feel like using the language of addiction around *eating* is really, really dangerous.
We don't need nicotine or alcohol to survive.
We do need food.
So it's kind of scary to hear the language of something you can quit using deployed against something necessary.
We don't need nicotine or alcohol to survive.
We do need food.
So it's kind of scary to hear the language of something you can quit using deployed against something necessary.
Which makes me think of something I've been wishing they'd talk about for a while, which is 12-step programs (talk about your thing everyone accepts as normal and benevolent that was not based on any science).
I guess this is my way of saying I really want an Overeaters Anonymous episode.
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