Food and our bodies are intrinsically linked. We feed our bodies in order to survive—to fuel the chemical reactions within our body. However, as discussed in one of my women’s studies classes recently, food is currently portrayed in competing ways. Namely, North American society is obsessed with ‘thinness’. This ideal of beauty is advertised everywhere, including food advertisements. Although this concept of beauty is pervasive for women and men, our society is also obsessed with consuming foods that function in unhealthy ways in our bodies, for example some fats, salt and simple sugars are destructive to our health.
