A recent study analyzing the content of TikTok videos from popular nutrition, food, and weight-related hashtags, each with 1 billion views, revealed glorification of weight loss as well as a lack of experts providing nutrition information. MedTwitter
analyzing the content of TikTok videos from popular nutrition, food, and weight-related hashtags, each with 1 billion views, revealed glorification of weight loss as well as a lack of experts providing nutrition information.Most of the content creators were revealed to be female adolescents and young adults in high school and college who lacked credentials, such as registered dietitian, doctor, or certified trainer.
However, there's a lot that is disappointingly not new. We have not moved on from the idea that weight loss will provide us the self-worth and happiness that we need and crave. The fact that most of the young adults creating content about weight loss on TikTok are female continues to identify women as falling prey to ideals regarding beauty and size. The feminist movement has a long way to go.What will change this recurring theme of the ideal body image being thin like Twiggy, the lean supermodel from the 1960s? We may have morphed Twiggy into a similar silhouette, only more muscular — but equally unattainable.
Infuse TikTok with credentialed expertise — we need dietitians and exercise specialists who can teach in a style that captures the TikTok audience while promoting evidence-based nutrition and physical activity advice.is a disease and that environmental changes are also responsible for obesity until it becomes public knowledge. The inability to lose weight in this environment and keep it off is not a moral or motivational failing.
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