Key points

Diet culture has been rebranded as "wellness" and is sneakier than ever.

Adolescents are the most vulnerable population for developing eating disorders.

We can help teens outsmart marketing efforts for diet culture.

There are countless reasons why I love working with teenagers. One of my favorite things about teenagers is that they are smart and skeptical. They don’t appreciate condescension, they usually don’t fall for it when adults aren’t truthful with them, and they don’t want to be underestimated. As a former New Yorker, I appreciate the skepticism that a lot of teens have when approaching any person or interaction that feels phony.

This is one of the reasons why it can be both humbling and challenging to parent a teenager. And it is unfortunately the reason why when m

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