“You Just Have to Keep Buying”: How Diet Culture Profits from Fatphobia

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Welcome back to Part Two of our series, the Economics of Weight Loss Drugs. (If you haven’t heard Part One, listen here!) Today, we’re picking back up where we left off in our conversation with Lili Zarghami, a writer who got on (then off) a weight loss drug. Then we’ll talk with Dr. Mara Gordon, a weight-neutral physician who deals with GLP-1s. Finally, I’ll share my final thoughts and analysis on where the world of GLP-1 agonists is all headed and what it says about health, wealth, stigma, and class. Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/diet-culture. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.6	Diet culture is a scam.
0:38.5	I mean, it's that simple.
0:40.6	I think I sort of use a working definition of diet culture, which is amorphous and sort of constantly evolving.
0:49.2	It's wily.
0:50.4	But I think of it as the cultural influences that make us feel like we always need to be shrinking our bodies
0:59.0	and that diet culture sort of depends on its inefficacy to exist.
1:07.4	Diet culture is the multi-billion dollar diet industry is a manifestation of diet culture.
1:14.0	And by definition, all of these diets, weight watchers, Noom, the keto diet, all the cookbooks, whatever.
1:23.7	And in certain circumstances, I put GLP1 agonist in that category. In some circumstances, I don't. I want to be really clear about that. But I think GLP1 agonists are and are not manifestations of diet culture. And we can get into that in a little bit. But all of this stuff, you just have to keep buying, literally. And if you stop being vigilant, if you
1:47.7	stop paying for the app, the threat is that the weight will come back and you will face fat
1:54.8	phobia.
1:59.1	Discover the power of WicOV.
2:01.6	Have you almost had trouble losing weight and keeping it off?
2:05.6	And you may lose weight. Adults lost on average up to 12 pounds.
2:09.6	I lost 35 pounds.
2:10.6	I love bread.
2:13.6	And some lost over 46 pounds.
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