Men’s magazines are providing male dieters with national platforms on which to congratulate each other for not eating
Photo: Ian Dyball MA/Getty Images/iStockphoto In a regular feature titled “The Real-Life Diet,” GQ interviews men about what they eat and how they exercise. Some of these men are celebrities , but most are professional athletes, like “the most jacked player in the NBA,” or Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey. Last week, though, GQ profiled its own staff member, fact-checker Mick Rouse, naming him “the Fittest Man at GQ.
Men’s magazines, meanwhile, remain free to cheerlead openly disordered eating: In his interview, Rouse says he used to eat oatmeal for three meals a day to lose weight, and while he warns readers against doing the same, his current diet is presented as healthy, “balanced,” and essential to his lean, muscular figure — the body deemed “best” by the staff’s own criteria.
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