2026-10-20 15:31 UTC
@deshipu@fosstodon.org That's true.
I guess in my mind I'm holding a line between the modern scope of influencers pressing people into thinness for the sake of thinness and those who choose hunger for spiritual reasons, political statements (hunger strikes), and the like.
I get that the line gets very blurry, though.
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@deshipu@fosstodon.org 2026-10-20 16:44
@djwfyi@fosstodon.org You could argue that influencers are the modern cultists, in a way. Independently from that, though, there is some research that suggests that it's actually healthy for people to fast once in a while (not constantly, though). We descend from hunter-gatherers and scavengers, and variety both in the kind and the amount of food consumed is expected by our biology.