Standing Desks and Free Pizza: Body Image ...
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Tech perks like free snacks, standing desks, Fitbits and Soylent create norms that often privilege certain bodies and erase disability and class contexts; research cited shows fat talk mediates weight thoughts and mental health and that binge eating and eating disorders affect all genders. Concrete steps include no fat talk 30 or a week of silence, changing the subject when fat talk starts, and employer policies to offer a variety of snacks and not penalize or reward body choices.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 6:11The High Cost of Free Office Snacks
- 10:10Whose food is healthy?
- 12:25Fat talk is interpersonal
- 12:51Fat talk is not unidirectional
- 13:18Fat talk is mutually reinforcing
- 14:51Binge eating affects all genders
- 15:30What to do about fat talk
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