The True Cost of Calorie Counting: Eating Disorders in College
Surrounded by harmful student norms surrounding diet culture, college students are especially vulnerable to eating disorders, which can have dire consequences.
Surrounded by harmful student norms surrounding diet culture, college students are especially vulnerable to eating disorders, which can have dire consequences.
Currently popular are “thinspiration” and “fitspiration” Instagram pages, or “thinspo” and “fitspo,” whose messages focus on promoting thinness, health, and wellness. However, the distinction between a healthy relationship with food, dieting, weight loss, and exercise, and anorexia is further and further blurred.