Experts: Diet culture and mental health may have connection Officials with Hattiesburg Clinic Psychology & Counseling discuss link between diet culture and mental health. (Source: WDAM) By Caroline Wood | April 20, 2021 at 4:57 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 7:05 AM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - According to health experts with Hattiesburg Clinic, diet culture is a set of beliefs valuing weight, shape, appearance and size above health.
We’re told people suffering from eating disorders may be more vulnerable to the effects of diet culture.
“I think messages about dieting cause people to feel pressure again to lose weight or to look a certain way or have a certain body type in order to be accepted,” said Krystal Draughn, with Hattiesburg Clinic Psychology & Counseling. “People with eating disorders are sort of predisposed to listening to those messages. They then, in turn, practice eating disorder behaviors. The messages themselves don’t really cause eating disorders,
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