"One Bite Couldn’t Hurt" exposes the insidious ways diet culture imposes morality, self-worth, and bodily autonomy. The phrase "A moment on the lips, forever on the hips"—a mantra of shame disguised as wisdom—is piped onto the surface, embodying the pressure to regulate pleasure through discipline. Diet culture refines not by elevating, but by erasing, dictating that goodness is measured by self-denial and that desire must be curbed to preserve worth. This work interrogates the narratives that cast consumption as a moral failing and the body as a battleground of virtue.
