Day celebrates diverse body types
Hunter Van Adelsberg / The Dartmouth Staff Hunter Van Adelsberg / The Dartmouth Staff Bubbles and brightly-colored sidewalk chalk welcomed Dartmouth students, faculty and Hanover residents to Thursday's "No Diet Day" celebration, an anti-diet, body-size-acceptance day sponsored by the Eating Disorder Peer Advisors. Founded in 1992 by Mary Evans Young, British feminist and director of the British anti-diet campaign "Diet Breakers," "No Diet Day" is an international, annual celebration of body acceptance and body shape diversity. "The goal of the day is to dispel the idea that there is only one right' body type and instead urges us all to celebrate the beauty in all of our natural shapes and sizes," EDPA intern Hannah Groveman '13 said. The day is also dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers and futility of dieting and to recognizing how dieting perpetuates violence against women.
