Obviously, the first reason food freedom is so important is that it may actively help those that struggle with disordered eating. However, as an entire movement, food freedom can also be incredibly important when it comes to ditching diet culture.
 

Diet culture is obviously bad for our minds - it encourages restricting ourselves, relies on us thinking our self worth is aligned with our weight, demonises certain foods, and promotes an unhealthy relationship with food overall.
 

However, it’s not just our minds that suffer from diet culture, our bodies do too. Most of the popular diets out there heavily restrict certain foods or entire food groups, not allowing our bodies to benefit from foods that we actually need to properly function at an optimal level of wellbeing.
 

Additionally, if you’re looking to lose weight, diets are very rarely the answer since our bodies go into a state of metabolic adaptation just a week or so after starting a restrictive diet. In order to support the natural balance of our body, if we begin to eat less, our body burns fewer calories. This means that long term, weight loss cannot be achieved by restrictive dieting.

So, let’s ditch diet culture for good - it doesn’t benefit anyone, at all.