Armitage Archive

"When eating practices are packaged as 'done in the name of health', they are more socially acceptable and difficult to contest." She points out that a normal teenage girl restricting her diet in the same way as Johnson would likely be regarded as ill and in need of medical intervention. "What we, as a society, regard as 'normal' and 'abnormal' eating is contextual and largely rides on how those eating practices are framed."