The nutritionist told about the difference between toxic and healthy body positives

Body positivity can be both healthy and toxic. The right attitude to accepting one's body does not imply its degradation, but the pursuit of self-improvement. This was announced on Monday, April 14, by nutritionist Elena Solomatina in an interview with Gazeta.Ru».

"A healthy positive is just the acceptance of oneself and others in the body that is a given. Human life is about self—improvement," the expert noted.

At the same time, toxic body positivity is a label that has been assigned to various videos on the Internet, the doctor said. According to the expert, such videos promote not so much loyalty to one's body as a harmful lifestyle, which, in turn, leads to poor health.

In addition, as the specialist pointed out, any person is a part of society, and all people are interconnected. She explained that such supporters of unhealthy body positivity will demand more benefits, disability payments, and resources for treatment will be redistributed. According to Solomatina, in this way the destructive movement is covered up with beautiful words and freedom of choice.

"These are parasitic people on other members of society," the doctor said.

Solomatina notes that the propagandists of toxic body positivity involve others in their movement, encouraging degradation. She added that such people need a leader, but not one who calls for development and self-control, but one who tells them to do nothing to work on their bodies.

The nutritionist emphasized that a person is lazy by nature, and when they tell him that he can do nothing, he willingly succumbs to it like a drug. Moreover, he is taught that food is also a way to earn money. Such people find support among like-minded people, as in a sect, Solomatina said.

In conclusion, the doctor called the toxic body positive a tool for the degradation of society and a destructive force capable of encouraging the masses not only to inaction, but also to bad habits.

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