Joyce Fegan: Dismantling society’s murky immersion in diet culture

Counting steps, commenting on other people's bodies, and congratulating people on restricting their energy intake all feed into an illness that takes lives and rules lives

Nikki Grahame, with her award for Most Popular TV Contender, at the National Television Awards 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The ‘Big Brother’ star died last Friday, at the age of 38, having just left treatment for an eating disorder.

The death of Big Brother star Nikki Grahame seemed to pass without much notice over here.

The 2006 Big Brother star died last Friday, at the age of 38, having just left treatment for an eating disorder — an illness she had been affected by for 30 years.