UK health experts warn that the Tiktok trend is encouraging eating disorders

Once again, a phenomenon has gone viral on Tiktok and sparked reactions from various experts and authorities. This time it is about a trend where users suggest in clips different recipes to make people thin.

The Independent Reports indicate that health experts now want to ban various hashtags used in the clips, such as #Watertok and #Whatieatinaday. Many of the “recipes” in the videos show how water and different “delicate” flavors should be mixed and can replace other foods.

The recipes are part of a larger trend where Tiktok users report what they ate during the day and where the number of calories the user ate at the end is reported.

“Competition disease”

One of the experts who responded in the UK is Martha Williams, a specialist at the non-profit organization Beat, which has worked against eating disorders. She believes this kind of trend on social media is “really dangerous” and only leads to “worse thoughts about disordered eating.”

-As this trend develops, people use it to direct their followers to imitate their behavior. She tells The Independent that eating disorders are very competitive diseases.

She believes that if people who already have an eating disorder look at these clips and want to look like the person who posted the clips, it is more likely that the person in question will eat and drink the same things.

TikTok makes dietary restrictions look easy, and people can fall into the trap of “if it works for them, it might work for me.” But everyone is different, and people need different amounts of nutrition to keep their bodies active. She warned in The Independent that you can’t replace meals with water.

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