Julia Collins: Diet culture is incredibly harmful and creates food tension
Julia Collins · Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates · Aug 3, 2023 · at 26:36
Julia Collins, founder and CEO of Planet FWD, shares her views on diet culture during an a16z Cultural Leadership Fund panel on food culture.
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“I think diet culture is incredibly harmful, actually. I think it creates a real tension around food, and food becomes about calories, and calories are scary and bad.”
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