Focusing on the calories is antiquated and destructive. I wish I could have told my anorexic teenage self, says tech writer Amelia Tait
Focusing on the calories in your diet is antiquated and destructive. I wish I could have told my anorexic teenage self
When science fiction writers imagine great, grandiose methods of social control – matrixes! Microchips! Really big bros! – they ignore one powerful form that already exists: the humble calorie. I feel this way because calories once consumed me. As an anorexic teenager I knew the number assigned to lettuce leaves, clementine segments, single yoghurt-coated banana chips and a Haribo sweet sucked for a second before being spat into the loo. I wasted so much time on minute-by-minute mental maths; I was distracted in class, my breath reeking of hunger as I muttered numbers to myself.
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