A Brief History of Diet Culture: How Your Eating Habits Affect Health
For as long as humans have had access to a surplus of food, we’ve had conflicting ideas about how much of it we should eat. Diet culture has deep roots in human history and has evolved over centuries of different perceptions about how bodies should look, being molded by the in-vogue ideas of body image, health, and what the “in” foods are. From ancient civilizations to modern society, dieting has been influenced by cultural, social, and economic factors, and understanding how this evolution has given us diet culture as we know it can provide useful insight on the practice today.
