not just food but "healthism"
Food has replaced religion for people who need rules, a feeling of purity, and the ability to look down on others for not meeting their purity standards.
Me: writes post saying I am enjoying a box of cereal.
The Scolds of Bluesky:
The Scolds of Bluesky:
February 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
not just food but "healthism"
🔴 Un très bel article à lire dans le Sociology of Health & Illness, écrit par Deborah Lupton
🔗 https://bit.ly/456ZbNn.
“Healthism inversé et healthism anti-scientifique : nouvelles formes de healthism à l'ère de la désinformation et du COVID-19”
En voici un résumé 🧵:
1/27
🔗 https://bit.ly/456ZbNn.
“Healthism inversé et healthism anti-scientifique : nouvelles formes de healthism à l'ère de la désinformation et du COVID-19”
En voici un résumé 🧵:
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January 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
🔴 Un très bel article à lire dans le Sociology of Health & Illness, écrit par Deborah Lupton
🔗 https://bit.ly/456ZbNn.
“Healthism inversé et healthism anti-scientifique : nouvelles formes de healthism à l'ère de la désinformation et du COVID-19”
En voici un résumé 🧵:
1/27
🔗 https://bit.ly/456ZbNn.
“Healthism inversé et healthism anti-scientifique : nouvelles formes de healthism à l'ère de la désinformation et du COVID-19”
En voici un résumé 🧵:
1/27
Check out my new commentary, in which I provide 2 new versions of healthism - antiscience healthism and reverse healthism
January 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Check out my new commentary, in which I provide 2 new versions of healthism - antiscience healthism and reverse healthism
Ah, healthism.
What a mindfuck.
What a mindfuck.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Ah, healthism.
What a mindfuck.
What a mindfuck.
Fett ist ein intersektionaler issue. Fett ist relevant für Sexismus, healthism, ableism.
Diskriminierung im Job, im Gesundheitswesen, im Alltag.
Sollte man nie vergessen
Diskriminierung im Job, im Gesundheitswesen, im Alltag.
Sollte man nie vergessen
Wenn du eine Fette Frau bist bist du automatisch taff. Was für ne taffe taffe Frau.
Und da die jeder einen Kurzhaarschnitt wärmstens empfiehlt bist du auch noch so richtig frech. Taff und frech.
Wie ein Meerschwein. Oder ein kleiner Hund 🤔
Und da die jeder einen Kurzhaarschnitt wärmstens empfiehlt bist du auch noch so richtig frech. Taff und frech.
Wie ein Meerschwein. Oder ein kleiner Hund 🤔
December 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Fett ist ein intersektionaler issue. Fett ist relevant für Sexismus, healthism, ableism.
Diskriminierung im Job, im Gesundheitswesen, im Alltag.
Sollte man nie vergessen
Diskriminierung im Job, im Gesundheitswesen, im Alltag.
Sollte man nie vergessen
Apologies for the mental healthism but this is completely insane. Look at the scale of it
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
August 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Apologies for the mental healthism but this is completely insane. Look at the scale of it
This is mostly about capitalism and white supremacy and healthism and hatred of difference.
April 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This is mostly about capitalism and white supremacy and healthism and hatred of difference.
I think people would understand MAHA better if they were able to identify healthism just where they encounter it in themselves and their everyday lives.
Because that's basically what MAHA is. Concentrated healthism weaponized in favor of the broader Christofascist agenda.
Because that's basically what MAHA is. Concentrated healthism weaponized in favor of the broader Christofascist agenda.
July 26, 2026 at 2:54 AM
I think people would understand MAHA better if they were able to identify healthism just where they encounter it in themselves and their everyday lives.
Because that's basically what MAHA is. Concentrated healthism weaponized in favor of the broader Christofascist agenda.
Because that's basically what MAHA is. Concentrated healthism weaponized in favor of the broader Christofascist agenda.
Unfortunately this is 21st century thinking:
"Covid is usually very mild"
"Only the vulnerable get severe symptoms"
"But did they have pre-existing conditions"
etc
Individualism -> healthism -> eugenics -> fascism
"Covid is usually very mild"
"Only the vulnerable get severe symptoms"
"But did they have pre-existing conditions"
etc
Individualism -> healthism -> eugenics -> fascism
The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.
May 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Unfortunately this is 21st century thinking:
"Covid is usually very mild"
"Only the vulnerable get severe symptoms"
"But did they have pre-existing conditions"
etc
Individualism -> healthism -> eugenics -> fascism
"Covid is usually very mild"
"Only the vulnerable get severe symptoms"
"But did they have pre-existing conditions"
etc
Individualism -> healthism -> eugenics -> fascism
"Make America Healthy Again," just like wellness culture, is rooted in ableism, healthism/health supremacy (the belief that not being 'healthy' is a moral failing), and disinformation about health/science
January 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Make America Healthy Again," just like wellness culture, is rooted in ableism, healthism/health supremacy (the belief that not being 'healthy' is a moral failing), and disinformation about health/science
smart piece from @maxjordan.bsky.social
MAHA Isn’t About Health. It’s Healthism.
RFK Jr. pushes diet and exercise while millions of Americans face hunger, poverty, and worse.
adversereaction.substack.com
March 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
smart piece from @maxjordan.bsky.social
et que les repères scientifiques sont délégitimés.
=> Ce processus abandonne les individus à eux-mêmes sous couvert d’empowerment.
On arrive à un nouveau healthism contemporain, combinant healthism inversé et healthism antiscience.
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=> Ce processus abandonne les individus à eux-mêmes sous couvert d’empowerment.
On arrive à un nouveau healthism contemporain, combinant healthism inversé et healthism antiscience.
20/27
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 PM
et que les repères scientifiques sont délégitimés.
=> Ce processus abandonne les individus à eux-mêmes sous couvert d’empowerment.
On arrive à un nouveau healthism contemporain, combinant healthism inversé et healthism antiscience.
20/27
=> Ce processus abandonne les individus à eux-mêmes sous couvert d’empowerment.
On arrive à un nouveau healthism contemporain, combinant healthism inversé et healthism antiscience.
20/27
The NYT and The Atlantic choosing to platform “raw water” (i.e. sewage) drinking and anti-vaxx causes as mainstream faux-populist healthism is a taste of what the future of mainstream information and media sources will look like for the foreseeable future
December 31, 2024 at 8:57 PM
The NYT and The Atlantic choosing to platform “raw water” (i.e. sewage) drinking and anti-vaxx causes as mainstream faux-populist healthism is a taste of what the future of mainstream information and media sources will look like for the foreseeable future
Healthism der neuste Kink des Kapitalismus.
»Viele sozial unerwünschte Verhaltensweisen werden nicht länger als moralische und juristische, sondern als medizinische und psychologische Probleme interpretiert«, schreibt Friedrich Schorb.
Der Fitness-Boom macht Gesundheit zum Statussymbol
Menschen geben immer mehr Geld für ihre Gesundheit aus, doch die Lebenserwartung stagniert. Hinter diesem Boom steht die Überzeugung, Gesundheit sei eine Frage individueller Verantwortung und Krankheit ein Anzeichen persönlichen Versagens.
jacobin.de
December 11, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Healthism der neuste Kink des Kapitalismus.
Heute neu den Begriff "Healthism" bei Rebecca Upton gelernt. Zwei Anwendungen in Bezug auf ME/CFS:
1. Genesungserzählungen
Healthism ist glaube ich ein interessantes Konzept, um "Healing-Journey-" und "Recovery-"Narrative bei Long Covid und ME/CFS zu greifen.
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1. Genesungserzählungen
Healthism ist glaube ich ein interessantes Konzept, um "Healing-Journey-" und "Recovery-"Narrative bei Long Covid und ME/CFS zu greifen.
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Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life - Robert Crawford, 1980
This article considers some implications of the new health consciousness and movements—holistic health and self-care—for the definition of and solution to probl...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Heute neu den Begriff "Healthism" bei Rebecca Upton gelernt. Zwei Anwendungen in Bezug auf ME/CFS:
1. Genesungserzählungen
Healthism ist glaube ich ein interessantes Konzept, um "Healing-Journey-" und "Recovery-"Narrative bei Long Covid und ME/CFS zu greifen.
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1. Genesungserzählungen
Healthism ist glaube ich ein interessantes Konzept, um "Healing-Journey-" und "Recovery-"Narrative bei Long Covid und ME/CFS zu greifen.
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Honestly I really think that that tied in with all the other shit about healthism, a huge thing for people is it allows them to avoid accepting that they're not in control of everything.
September 16, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Honestly I really think that that tied in with all the other shit about healthism, a huge thing for people is it allows them to avoid accepting that they're not in control of everything.
TIH: the Trump Institutes of Healthism.
March 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
TIH: the Trump Institutes of Healthism.
The name for the ideology described here is healthism.
The term is roughly 45 years old.
Source: www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian...
The term is roughly 45 years old.
Source: www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian...
August 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The name for the ideology described here is healthism.
The term is roughly 45 years old.
Source: www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian...
The term is roughly 45 years old.
Source: www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian...
Healthism is one of those trips that's so trippy people don't even realize they're living steeped in it.
September 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Healthism is one of those trips that's so trippy people don't even realize they're living steeped in it.
Es ist ein schmaler Grat, Psychologisierung im Kontext von Healthism, also vor dem neoliberalen Hintergrund der Individualisierung und Optimierung psychischer Gesundheit, zu kritisieren, ohne dabei selbst neoliberale Narrative vermeintlicher Überdiagnostik psychischer Krankheiten zu übernehmen
December 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Es ist ein schmaler Grat, Psychologisierung im Kontext von Healthism, also vor dem neoliberalen Hintergrund der Individualisierung und Optimierung psychischer Gesundheit, zu kritisieren, ohne dabei selbst neoliberale Narrative vermeintlicher Überdiagnostik psychischer Krankheiten zu übernehmen
Healthism ends up being closely tied with ableism, eugenics and necropolitics.
August 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Healthism ends up being closely tied with ableism, eugenics and necropolitics.
I can't help but think of healthism.
September 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I can't help but think of healthism.
It's all THE NANNY STATE and HEALTHISM until you experience a smoke-free bar and are like, oh yeah, it's much nicer in here without a layer of tar on everything. If we ever move away from car culture, the same thing will happen
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It's all THE NANNY STATE and HEALTHISM until you experience a smoke-free bar and are like, oh yeah, it's much nicer in here without a layer of tar on everything. If we ever move away from car culture, the same thing will happen
There's ableism/healthism, both from people with the expectation that you should positive attitude and smoothie yourself better
From doctors, who can get weird about you doing your own research or using a mobility aid
Not to mention the internalized ableism we aim at ourselves
From doctors, who can get weird about you doing your own research or using a mobility aid
Not to mention the internalized ableism we aim at ourselves
January 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There's ableism/healthism, both from people with the expectation that you should positive attitude and smoothie yourself better
From doctors, who can get weird about you doing your own research or using a mobility aid
Not to mention the internalized ableism we aim at ourselves
From doctors, who can get weird about you doing your own research or using a mobility aid
Not to mention the internalized ableism we aim at ourselves
Gerade in politischen Räumen, die sich noch immer ausgesprochen zögerlich in der Auseinandersetzung mit struktureller medizinischer Gewalt zeigen, irritiert mich das zunehmend.
Diese Logik ist ganz klar im Kontext von Healthism zu verorten.
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Diese Logik ist ganz klar im Kontext von Healthism zu verorten.
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May 23, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Gerade in politischen Räumen, die sich noch immer ausgesprochen zögerlich in der Auseinandersetzung mit struktureller medizinischer Gewalt zeigen, irritiert mich das zunehmend.
Diese Logik ist ganz klar im Kontext von Healthism zu verorten.
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Diese Logik ist ganz klar im Kontext von Healthism zu verorten.
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