Shape and Reader’s Digest

These days, virtually everyone is aware of the concept of body positivity. And the movement, which preaches acceptance and health at any/every size, has done a lot of good.

Crabbe points to awareness of diet culture and its harms, fatphobia and how it affects people’s lives, and diversity representation in ads, as areas where the needle has started to move. The anti-diet movement is growing, and people are beginning to understand that a “healthy” weight is not a universal number.

“Accomplishments like brands banishing Photoshop, TV shows casting a wider range of body types, and magazines vowing to stop splashing weight-loss promises on their front covers are small changes in the grand scheme of things, but hopefully are also signs of bigger changes to come,” she says.

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