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Make America Healthy Again? Diet Culture, Christian Control, and the Crisis Beneath Our Bodies

Make America Healthy Again? Diet Culture, Christian Control, and the Crisis Beneath Our Bodies

Update: 2025-07-20
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Protein over Prozac. Skinny as sanctified. Health as holiness. A recent NYT piece traces the rebranding of Christian diet culture—but we’re asking a deeper question: Why do we keep turning the body into a battleground? In this solo episode of …We Have a Spiritual Problem, Dr. Jeff Armstrong unpacks the theological, political, and spiritual layers beneath our obsession with fitness, thinness, and “clean” living. From SPIES to the Cosmic Christ, from Turning Point rallies to Teilhard’s Omega Point, this is a call to stop shrinking, start integrating, and reclaim your body as a sacred commons—because the real crisis isn't about health. It's about meaning.

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Make America Healthy Again? Diet Culture, Christian Control, and the Crisis Beneath Our Bodies

Make America Healthy Again? Diet Culture, Christian Control, and the Crisis Beneath Our Bodies

Jeff Armstrong, Ph.D.