In the penultimate episode of Season 2, I speak to Maxine Ali, a health writer, linguist and body image PhD researcher and she uses her platform to dissect the language of health and wellness, looking into its toxic and sexist sub-messaging. After falling hard into the clean eating culture whilst being a health journalist for a well-known women’s health magazine, Maxine left the industry in 2017 to refocus her writing and research.

Maxine and I discuss:

• Gender disparities and the lack of visual representation of diverse body types in wellness culture - how this exacerbates insecurities and reinforces patriarchal ideals of beauty and femininity.
• How the ‘self-improvement’ culture leads from the notion that the fault is always with the individual, never the institution or systems that uphold it 
• The ugly side to body positivity and toxic positivity in health communication.
• How wellness culture reframes restriction and how to recognise when diet culture is silently co-opting the non-diet language

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