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A woman from Georgia was stunned by an overheard grocery store conversation between a mother and her daughter.
Erica Harrison (@em_harrison_) shared a post on Threads, recalling the moment she witnessed while shopping at Costco.
“Yesterday, while grocery shopping, I heard a mother tell her young daughter that she needed the yogurt with fat in it,” Harrison wrote. “She proceeded to tell her that, with protein and fiber, it was better for satiation and adequate hormone production. It healed something in me.”
Harrison said that what moved her wasn’t simply the mother’s advice, but the philosophy behind it.
“I think any person can resonate with the diet culture and chasing skinny we all have faced in some form or another,” she told Newsweek. “I was thankful to hear a conversation for a new generation that was more health-focused and functional. ‘Let’s keep you fuller for longer rather than empty calories’ was the impression I got.”
Her reaction was also shaped by her own background. Harrison said her experiences growing up, combined with years spent studying and teaching biology, helped make the interaction especially meaningful.
“I’ve changed careers but still an SME [subject matter expert] for Wiley publishing and the nerd in me was just giddy at factual information,” she said.
Harrison’s post went viral on Threads, amassing more than 224,000 views and 160 comments.
Many users praised what they saw as a more balanced approach to talking about food with children.
“I switched to full fat a week ago after a lifetime of no/low fat, and no joke it has changed my life,” one person wrote.
Another added, “Oh my gosh I needed to hear this. I’ve been mostly buying low-fat or 0 percent fat Greek yogurt for a while now, in the name of not adding more fat sources to my diet.”
Several commenters linked the conversation to decades of messaging that portrayed fat as something to avoid.
“This is exactly how I talk about food choices with my 9-year-old daughter,” another said. “Wild that we didn’t learn these things until adulthood.”
Others argued that low-fat food trends of previous decades had lasting consequences.
“The low-fat trend of the ’80s led to the over-carbed food choices we have today,” one commenter wrote. “The only way to increase flavor when you remove fat is by adding sugar.”
Harrison said the response has been “overwhelming.”
“I’m new to Threads but it seems to have struck a nerve for a lot of folks,” she said.
Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Charlotte Nisbet and Emma Lee-Sang
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