Kareena Kapoor’s Nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar advocates for self-acceptance. In a new post, she takes aim at ‘ageism” culture and says that good health manifests at every age.
The celebrity nutritionist who has collaborated with Kareena Kapoor for many years triggered a conversation on
self-acceptance and healthy ageing with her latest post. Taking to her Instagram on December 6, Rujuta shared a video of herself speaking at an event, and wrote in the caption, “I am anti anti-ageing. Here’s proof.”
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Rujuta Diwekar encourages people to embrace their age, shape, and size rather than striving to meet restrictive societal beauty standards.
Rujuta argued that true health and happiness were fundamentally intertwined, encouraging people to embrace their age, shape, and size rather than striving to meet restrictive societal beauty standards. As per the nutritionist looking one’s age was a desirable sign of growth, wisdom, and kindness. She pushed back against the common compliment of appearing younger, stating it misses the point of a fulfilled life.
Adding that “Itsn’t a compliment that you look like a 20-year-old in your 40s. Looking like 40 in your 40s, looking like 70 in your 70s, looking like 20 in your 20s, it’s a wonderful thing. That much insight comes into you, that much empathy comes, kindness comes,”. She also went on to suggest that a slight increase in body size with age should be accepted as a natural and necessary aspect of the body learning to perform its functions.
True health markers are basic functions, not weight
Rujuta also challenged the notion that weight and size were the primary indicators of health. Instead, she outlined a set of fundamental markers that she believes reflect true well-being: waking up refreshed every morning, sleeping well at night, enjoying food without guilt, including seasonal sweets like pinni and gajar halwa, feeling light and stable when standing on one’s own two feet. She added that for women, having regular, pain-free menstrual cycles also mattered.
Further adding that
“We have to know that our shape and size don’t determine how healthy we are. If you are a woman, you are never small enough. And you are never light enough. So the only thing that you should worry about is when I stand on my own two feet, do I feel light? If you feel light, you are fine,”
The nutritionist lauded Mumbai, which she noted was recently voted the happiest city in Asia, attributing part of this happiness to its culture of acceptance. She said that in Mumbai, people were ‘bindaas (carefree/uninhibited)’ and they refrained from making judgmental comments about others’ physical appearances.
She also went on to explain that “this is just not a conversation that happens in Bombay (Mumbai); people are like, ‘Baby, you look wow.’ So everyone is like that because people are very accepting of themselves.
Rujuta concluded by urging people to be the transformation by practising body positivity, starting by not criticising their own bodies and refusing to offer explanations to others who comment on their appearance. She advised “Be the change that you want to see in the world,”
“The next time you see yourself in the mirror, do a double turn because you are all looking great,” she further added.
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