End of last year, ACSM, a sports medicine and exercise science membership organization headquartered in the US, released their Top 10 Fitness Trends in 2021. Among them, online training, wearable technology, and body weight training are the top 3 fitness trends in America. ACSM also gathered top 41 to 46 trends across seven countries and regions – Australia, Brazil, China, Europe, Mexico, Spain and United States. Among them, exercise for weight loss, functional fitness training and body weight training appeared on the top 20 trends across all countries. Therefore, function, convenience and aesthetics are three of the characteristics that people are likely to look for when they consider incorporating a fitness component into their lifestyle in 2021.

Extreme relationship with food, wearing layers of clothes, constantly measuring her arm with two fingers to see how far away they are from touching the tip of each other, Ellen’s behavior in the movie To the Bone may not be strange to those who have had or know someone who has suffered from anorexia. 

Despite criticism it has received, the movie did manage to cast some light on the underlying issues of the eating disorder, and offers patients, their friends and family hope that this can be cured.