The phrase "diet industry" refers to the collection of companies, products, and services that focus on helping people lose weight or achieve a certain body shape through special diets, supplements, or other methods. Full definition
The billion - dollar diet industry is out to make money, not help people have a healthy body image. (mindbodygreen.com)
But that's not surprising because diet industry marketing is based on making sure there's a nutritional bad guy. (burnthefatblog.com)
In her 1992 book The God of Thinness, Mary Louise Bringle similarly denounced the Christian diet industry for «feeding off the facile conflation of fat and sin (and forgetting that the traditional teachings of the church condemn consumptive behaviors but say nothing about cosmetic matters of body shape and size).» (religion-online.org)