Body Positivity Was Never Anti-Health

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By Andrea Mathis, MA, RDN, LD ·Updated March 10, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

If you’ve been scrolling lately, you may have noticed the shift in how we talk about bodies. Once again, thinness is being elevated as the gold standard of health, and in that shift, body respect, I see something very different. What I see is not evidence that body positivity failed, but evidence that we have

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