Fit Womens Weekly Podcast · Kindal Boyle
When Did Being Skinny Become The Goal? 100 Years of Fad Diets & Body Goals
·26 min·2 clips
Discover how the first bestselling diet book in the 1920s promoted eating 500 calories or less, starting our unhealthy obsession with food.
As heard by us
A clear reminder that body goals are trends, not truths.
The piece treats fad diets as a cycle, not a straight line, moving from wartime rationing and the Basic Seven to the higher-carb, lower-fat turn, then on to the 60s and 70s when slimness came back into fashion. That frame gives the argument weight without overreaching.
Why you'd press play
You want the history behind why thinness keeps returning as the goal.
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