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Don’t Confuse Diet Culture , With Being Healthy. As many now focus on new health resolutions for 2022, experts say it’s important to remember that being skinny and being healthy aren’t mutually exclusive. There are several reasons why Americans make New Year’s resolutions. Often the culprit is diet culture, a collective of social expectations. This can be unhealthy and encourage unrealistic goals. Free yourself from the chains of diet culture, and focus on attaining actual health by keeping these things in mind:. BMI. Health professionals have long utilized body mass index to measure overall health. BMI was the creation of 19th-century Belgian statistician Adolph Quetelet.