Editor s Note:Â For those who struggle with body image, eating disorders or disordered eating, Belcher recommends resources provided by the nutrition services at the University Health Center as well as the National Eating Disorder Association.
Quarantine hit. Doors shut. Students resigned to their bedrooms and phones lit up with the notorious 15-60 second viral challenges that encompass the TikTok app. For many, those challenges consisted of content that would threaten to dismantle their healthy relationship with food.
Although TikTok provided a ubiquitous distraction for college students in a time of lockdown, creators participated in trends such as âwhat I eat in a dayâ that fostered harmful impacts for those struggling with body image, eating disorders and disordered eating.