While I appreciate you talking about dieting and some of its effects, I feel like you didn’t express the dangers of teens’ eating habits and just how common eating disorders are these days. This article could have taken a different turn to really hit home with a lot of the students here at this school. If 69% of MHS students feel like diet has a negative connotation, then why are students still getting bullied because of their weight or eating habits? This article mainly stuck to facts about eating healthier or finding a balance of what they’re eating, but what about the boy who has tried and tried to eat healthier to look and be like the star athletes but still didn’t see results, so they started to throw up everything he ate. What about the girl who starved herself all week just to fit into her turnabout dress? The fact that young men and women are tricked into thinking they aren’t good enough the way God made them is absolutely sickening. I don’t think there is a very positive light on dieting because everyone is perfect just the way they are, and this article could’ve started a path to allowing everyone realize they don’t have to look like a Victoria’s Secret Angel to feel beautiful or to be accepted instead of talking about the athletes who try and maintain a healthy lifestyle because they have to for sports.

In response to “Sizing up diet culture“.