Unpacking the ‘anti-diet movement’: domination and strategies of resistance in the broad anti-diet community

Jovanovski, Natalie

doi:10.1080/14742837.2022.2070736

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“…This negotiation becomes apparent when we consider how participants appeared to be navigating health teachings about restraint and thinness, recovery teachings about freedom and removing the ‘healthy self’ from the ‘ED voice’ (Voswinkel et al, 2021), and counter‐cultural movements such as anti‐diet culture, intuitive eating and anti‐weight stigma (Au & Cosh, 2022; Jovanovski & Jaeger, 2022). These tensions can be understood as situated in a culture which privileges self‐responsibilization in ED recovery.…”

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“…This points to the way that individualization and neoliberal responsibilization shapes how people manage their ED recoveries. LaMarre and Rice (2016) noted: in an age of individual responsibilization, in which we are all expected to self-monitor and apply health teachings-not only do instructions about recovery come from those in power, but they also come through self-instruction as individuals search for, negotiate, and strive to enact "recovery" bodily practices (p. 2) This negotiation becomes apparent when we consider how participants appeared to be navigating health teachings about restraint and thinness, recovery teachings about freedom and removing the 'healthy self' from the 'ED voice' (Voswinkel et al, 2021), and counter-cultural movements such as anti-diet culture, intuitive eating and anti-weight stigma (Au & Cosh, 2022;Jovanovski & Jaeger, 2022). These tensions can be understood as situated in a culture which privileges selfresponsibilization in ED recovery.…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘An extra fight I didn't ask for’: A qualitative survey exploring the impact of calories on menus for people with experience of eating disorders

Beetham

O'Neill

Newman

2023

British J Health Psychol

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ObjectivesThe UK government made it mandatory for large restaurants and cafes in England to display calorie labels on menus. Existing evidence identifies minimal potential for benefit, but significant potential for harm to those with eating disorders. To date, only one published study has directly explored the impact of this legislation on those with eating disorders. This study explores the impact of calorie labelling on menus on adults with experience of eating disorders in England.DesignA qualitative online survey was designed and distributed, and 399 adults with current or past experience/s of eating disorders completed the survey.MethodsReflexive thematic analysis was used, informed by a critical realist approach.ResultsSix themes were developed: (1) impacts on relationships, (2) exclusion and increased isolation, (3) restricted freedom, (4) dis/embodiment, (5) anger and frustration at the perpetuation of diet culture and (6) we are all responsible for ourselves. Most participants felt calorie labels on menus is detrimental to their eating disorder and/or recovery. People are navigating multiple opposing cultural narratives around health, bodies and eating disorder recovery that can put additional barriers in place to developing a relationship with food and body that they would like.ConclusionsCalorie labelling on menus is likely to adversely impact those with eating disorders. Menus with calories should be available separately but should not be the first or only one provided. People with experience of eating disorders should be directly involved in the development of public health legislation and policy that is likely to affect them.

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confidence: 99%

‘An extra fight I didn't ask for’: A qualitative survey exploring the impact of calories on menus for people with experience of eating disorders

Beetham

O'Neill

Newman

2023

British J Health Psychol

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“…These views resulted in today's body positivity movement [9] and proposals to characterize 'overweight' and 'obese' as stigmatizing and normative labels [10]. Collectives of feminists, fat activists, and health professionals similarly participate in 'antidiet movements' [11]. Caught between different camps, policymakers are urged to reframe health policies [12], particularly as obesity policies have occasionally been designated as stigmatizing [13], and the ensuing weight bias has a demonstrated negative impact on mental health [12,14].…”

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Participatory Modeling to Support Paradigm Shifts in Public Health: An Application to Obesity and Evidence-Based Policymaking

Giabbanelli,

MacEwan

2024

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The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) of British Columbia suggested that a paradigm shift from weight to well-being could address the unintended consequences of focusing on obesity and improve the outcomes of efforts to address the challenges facing both individuals and our healthcare system. In this paper, we jointly used artificial intelligence (AI) and participatory modeling to examine the possible consequences of this paradigm shift. Specifically, we created a conceptual map with 19 experts to understand how obesity and physical and mental well-being connect to each other and other factors. Three analyses were performed. First, we analyzed the factors that directly connect to obesity and well-being, both in terms of causes and consequences. Second, we created a reduced version of the map and examined the connections between categories of factors (e.g., food production, and physiology). Third, we explored the themes in the interviews when discussing either well-being or obesity. Our results show that obesity was viewed from a medical perspective as a problem, whereas well-being led to broad and diverse solution-oriented themes. In particular, we found that taking a well-being perspective can be more comprehensive without losing the relevance of the physiological aspects that an obesity-centric perspective focuses on.

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“…The concepts of 'health' and 'fat' have been historically interlinked, with fat being synonymous with poor health (Pausé et al, 2021). This has recently begun to change with the advocacy of the fat community and the fat acceptance movement (Jovanovski & Jaeger, 2022;Leboeuf, 2019).…”

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Self-Identified Fat Peoples Experiences of COVID-19 Vaccination Centre's in Aotearoa NZ

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<p><strong>This study investigates self-identified fat people’s experiences of COVID-19 vaccination centres in Aotearoa NZ. This includes attention to multiple facets of the experience of COVID-19 vaccination centres including the physical environment, interaction with service providers, and knowledge of and access to a long needle in accordance with Ministry of Health vaccination guidelines. The thesis employs a critical realist/contextualist approach, underpinned by the theory of body privilege. Qualitative content analysis is used to analyse open-ended survey responses collected as part of a broader international study. Three main themes are identified from the data set. The first theme, ‘“Crammed in Like Sardines”: Navigating COVID-19 vaccination centre environments’ found mixed experiences and a number of challenges in fat people’s access to and movement through vaccination centres. The second theme, “Thank fuck for fat activists”: The need for COVID-19 vaccination advocacy’ captured the importance that fat people’s advocacy played, both at the individual and community level in ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccinations and in raising awareness about long needle guidelines. The third theme, ‘“I worry about the effectiveness of my vaccine now”: Trust and authority in the vaccination encounter’ identifies the power imbalance within vaccination centres that placed authority with the vaccinator and undermined fat people’s self-advocacy and self-determination for long needle use. I demonstrate the corrosive impact this had on fat people’s confidence that they were protected from COVID-19 and subsequently their trust in the governments COVID-19 responsiveness for fat people. Findings highlight the healthcare inequities experienced by fat people when accessing COVID-19 vaccination that can also be seen reflected in everyday healthcare systems and settings. Vaccination centers were found to privilege thinness at both a structural and interactional level which excluded fat people and disregarded the needs of the fat community as well as other marginalized communities. These inequities ultimately served to undermine public health policies that were meant to protect and provide equitable care to the entire population. The neglect of fat people’s needs led to the requirement of advocacy by fat people to seek accessible and equitable healthcare. Whilst effective in helping promote protection for fat people, public health programmes that rely on community and self-advocacy to ensure responsiveness to marginalized communities is neither a fair solution nor is it sustainable in the long term. Research findings point to important lessons to be learned to ensure the inclusion of and responsiveness to fat people in future pandemic responses and in healthcare systems more generally.</strong></p>

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Unpacking the ‘anti-diet movement’: domination and strategies of resistance in the broad anti-diet community

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

‘An extra fight I didn't ask for’: A qualitative survey exploring the impact of calories on menus for people with experience of eating disorders

‘An extra fight I didn't ask for’: A qualitative survey exploring the impact of calories on menus for people with experience of eating disorders

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Participatory Modeling to Support Paradigm Shifts in Public Health: An Application to Obesity and Evidence-Based Policymaking

Self-Identified Fat Peoples Experiences of COVID-19 Vaccination Centre's in Aotearoa NZ

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