Diet Culture: How it Harms Us, How We Can Reject it and What We can Do Instead

Diet Culture: How it Harms Us, How We Can Reject it and What We can Do Instead

Diet culture is a belief system that focuses on and values weight, shape and size over well-being. It can cause damage on the individual and societal level and is interwoven throughout the fitness industry. As fitness professionals, we have the opportunity and responsibility to recognize diet culture, reject it and replace it with tools that allow our clients to form healthy and happy relationships with their own bodies. In this lecture, you will learn how to recognize and challenge aspects of diet culture and discuss concepts to replace this harmful narrative with one that empowers each person you work with, including yourself.

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Learning Objectives


  • Define and identify diet culture.
  • Describe why diet culture is harmful.
  • Identify where diet culture shows up in the fitness space.
  • Implement tools to help clients reject diet culture and reframe their relationship with food and fitness.
  • Create a personal plan to change client and student interactions.
  • Implement tools to build resilience against diet culture.


Course Procedure

  1. Enroll in the course.
  2. View the course content.
  3. Take the test. (You must score 80% to pass. If you do not pass, you may retake the test.)
  4. Print your certificate of completion.

Course Content

  • Diet Culture: How it Harms Us, How We Can Reject it and What We can Do Instead
  • Diet Culture: How it Harms Us, How We Can Reject it and What We can Do Instead Exam

Available Course Credits

ACTION0.1
ACSM2.0
ACE.1
AFPA1
AFAA1
BCRPA1
CHEK1
FAI/ISSA1
IFPA1
NASM0.1
NAFTA1
NAFC0.1
NCEP1
NCCPT1
NCSF0.5
NESTA0.1
NETA1
NFPT0.2
NIEW0.1
NSPA1