What Is Diet Talk & How To Respond

Diet talk is any kind of talk centered around dieting, food rules or restriction, diet trends, weight control, body bashing, or the like. And at the core of all diet talk is weight loss. Diet talk usually encourages negative feelings about one’s body. All this diet talk, while it can seem harmless, is actually very dangerous. Diets are directly associated with the development of eating disorders, especially in teens. Since diet talk is so normalized, it can be difficult and confusing to know how to respond.