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Question: Why do people assume that when someone asks for nutrition advice they want to lose weight?

P.S- There’s nothing wrong with a diet. Everyone alive is on a diet. It’s not necessarily a weight-loss diet.
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Answer by gozaine
I suppose because most people do. You’re right, we are all on a diet, it just means what you generally eat. But in English the word has come to be generally understood to mean you are trying to lose weight. I prefer weight loss program myself, or eating plan.

Answer by MeggieR
I’ve never assumed that

Answer by marie.lee
I suppose it is easy to assume that if someone is asking about nutrition that they don’t know a great deal about healthy eating and may be overweight.

Which I think is incorrect, healthy eating is something we should all think about whether we are overweight or not. After all you can be thin and still be unhealthy or have lost weight in an unhealthy way. Having said that I am probably as guilty of associating weight loss with nutrition as the next person – even though nutrition is an interest of mine and I am not overweight (anymore).

Answer by Isabeline
It’s the obsession this days, not being healthy but being thin.

Answer by The Grit
Americans in particular are absolutely obsessed with weight loss. We cannot disassociate exercise and diet from weight loss. There is this insane social fear and hatred of fat that really brings out the worst in people. How could there not be with people trying to get obesity classified as a disease? Trust me: it’s not fat people trying to do that; it’s the medical industry, and it’s all for $.

Anyway, rant . . . . what was I saying? Oh, people just can’t think beyond those parameters.

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