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Women may be swapping thinness ideal for fitness ideal
Original: Counting calories or lifting weights? Women could be trading one narrow body ideal for another
A new commentary argues that women who once felt pressure to diet and count calories are now being pushed toward a different narrow standard: lifting weights and achieving a lean, muscular physique. The piece suggests fitness culture, while framed as empowerment and health, may simply replace one rigid body ideal with another, leaving little room for body diversity.
Why now: Ongoing debate over whether strength-focused fitness trends truly liberate women from diet culture or merely replace it with new body pressures
Evidence
- Counting calories or lifting weights? Women could be trading one narrow body ideal for another · edition.cnn.com
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