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Every Single Diet (Even When You Don’t Use That Word) is About These 15 Awful Things.

Savala Nolan
11 min readJan 11

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When I was a kid (the 80s and 90s), dieting was en vogue. Intentional weight loss. Getting skinny. Finally losing the fat. Stopping the insanity. Hallelujah! There was no shame in it. If you were on a diet, you said so in public, proudly, and you made sure to use that d-word. Diet! Such a cute sound, sweet even, right? But powerful. Efficient as…

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Savala Nolan

uc berkeley law professor and essayist @ vogue, time, harper’s, NYT, NPR, and more | Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins | she/her | IG @notquitebeyonce