Health experts in the UK warn that the TikTok trend is fueling eating disorders

Again, a phenomenon on Tiktok became popular and caused reactions from various experts and authorities. This time, it’s about a trend where users in clips recommend different recipes to make people slimmer.

The Independent Health experts now want to ban various hashtags such as #Watieatinaday and #Watieatinaday used in the clips, according to reports. Many of the “recipes” in the videos show how to mix water and various “subtle” flavors and replace other foods.

The recipes are part of a larger trend where TikTok users report what they eat in a day and ultimately report the number of calories the user has consumed.

“Competitive Disease”

One of the responders in the UK was Martha Williams, an expert at Beat, a non-profit organization that worked against eating disorders. She believes this kind of trend on social media is “really dangerous” and only creates “bad thoughts about disordered eating.”

– As this trend develops, people use it to instruct followers to copy their behavior. Eating disorders are very competitive illnesses, she tells The Independent.

She believes that if people who already have an eating disorder watch these clips and want to be like the person who posted the clips, the person in question will eat and drink the same.

– Tiktok makes dieting easy, people can fall into the “if it works for them, it works for me” trap. But everyone is different, and people need different amounts of nutrition to maintain their bodies. You cannot replace food with water, he warns in The Independent.

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