healthism

/ ˈhɛlθɪzəm /

noun

1. a lifestyle that prioritizes health and fitness over anything else

Example Sentences

If you’ve listened to Maintenance Phase, the popular podcast by Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon, you’re familiar with how rotten the promise of healthism has always been; in fact, it was in Gordon’s new book debunking myths about fat people that I most recently came across the term.

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This view of exercise might be best understood as “healthism,” a term coined decades ago by sociologist Robert Crawford.

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“The past few years have witnessed an exercise and running explosion,” Crawford wrote in a 1980 paper titled “Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life,” pointing to the proliferation of health magazines, and “health themes” in newspapers.

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And it's not just about us; a prevailing ideology of "Healthism" urges us to frame our personal inadequacies as a slight against the society that depends on us to remain healthy.

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It’s a side effect of healthism.

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