Diet Culture Rebel: Intuitive Eating and Why it Matters

Kelly Hood - RN, BSN
5 min readOct 11, 2021

We live in the age of a dieting epidemic. Diet culture imposes on us from every direction, with far-reaching effects. Children as young as six are on diets, and 80 percent of 10-year-old girls have been on some kind of diet. Despite the ubiquitousness of diet culture, there is little to no data on any type of diet being successful long term.

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THE PROBLEM

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Kelly Hood - RN, BSN

RN, BSN with experience in Emergency, Hospice, and Pediatrics. Passionate Christ-follower, writer, traveler, home cook/baker, animal lover. IG: kellyhood_rn