Amii
01-27-2011, 01:20 AM
Right, vent time it is. I've been up all night following an OCD cleaning spree and I thought I'd calm myself down by ranting about the following:
Master cleanse scaremongering.
So. I live in the UK. We get these documentaries every few months about "crash diets" in which some woman (or women), often a journalist, is asked to have cameras follow her for a period of time (2 months or so) and watch her attempt to skinny down to "size zero". They always, without fail, put them on the master cleanse first.
They go on and on about how the master cleanse is a starvation diet employed by desperate, skeletal models who are about to go on the catwalk. Then they say that you ONLY lose water weight and no fat, and anyway it will all come back. They say there are NO health benefits to the cleanse.
Now.. I just... ugh. Okay, they don't even get the steps right. They only let the woman drink 3 lemonades per day, when the limit is 6. They talk about how the metabolism will grind to a halt (which is what the cayenne PREVENTS from happening) and they get the woman to complain about how hungry she feels.. although if she is doing it right, she shouldn't feel hungry.
Then, they usually move them onto a REAL "crash diet" that involves eating nothing but crackers and cottage cheese. They whine more of the same except this time it's obviously genuine.
Then they go onto a raw food diet. This is the worst one because the OBVIOUSNESS of how it's being manipulated is just gross. There is a scene in Super Skinny Me in which the woman on the raw foods diet, sits with her friends who are all eating cooked food, and she sits there with this pathetic plate of carrots and sprouts, and then she points to the cooked food and goes "Life" and then she points to the RAW food and goes "NO life".. "there's only half a life without food". How biased and ridiculous is that?
No points for guessing that the producers will have insisted she does that.
I just had to get some thoughts on how master cleanse is shown in the media, and put that bit about raw foods in there for more context.
If you search "super skinny me" on youtube. And if you can access 4oD, the latest one "Will my crash diet kill me?" came out just a week ago.
Enjoy the fakeness :D
PS. This is me trying to generate an actual discussion. No comments of "just ignore them" please.. we already know that :P
PPS. Probably the worst part of this whole issue is the vain, transparent attempts by the journalists to justify their "overweightness" as "healthy" or normal. There was one docu ("Super Slim-Me") in which the journalist went to a holistic doctor and had her body fat measured, expecting to be told it was normal. It was actually obese. After he left, she turns to the camera and goes "I can't believe he said that. That man is dangerous. He could give people an eating disorder", yeah sure. And I suppose all that fat clogging your arteries and heart ISN'T dangerous?
There's nothing more annoying than people implying that ANYTHING can cause an eating disorder. It's a psychological issue! I only have 2 years of psychology A-level behind me but even I can tell you that.
PPPS. I know I'm harsh! I'm very sorry but if you don't like it... then I can't do anything about it ;)
Master cleanse scaremongering.
So. I live in the UK. We get these documentaries every few months about "crash diets" in which some woman (or women), often a journalist, is asked to have cameras follow her for a period of time (2 months or so) and watch her attempt to skinny down to "size zero". They always, without fail, put them on the master cleanse first.
They go on and on about how the master cleanse is a starvation diet employed by desperate, skeletal models who are about to go on the catwalk. Then they say that you ONLY lose water weight and no fat, and anyway it will all come back. They say there are NO health benefits to the cleanse.
Now.. I just... ugh. Okay, they don't even get the steps right. They only let the woman drink 3 lemonades per day, when the limit is 6. They talk about how the metabolism will grind to a halt (which is what the cayenne PREVENTS from happening) and they get the woman to complain about how hungry she feels.. although if she is doing it right, she shouldn't feel hungry.
Then, they usually move them onto a REAL "crash diet" that involves eating nothing but crackers and cottage cheese. They whine more of the same except this time it's obviously genuine.
Then they go onto a raw food diet. This is the worst one because the OBVIOUSNESS of how it's being manipulated is just gross. There is a scene in Super Skinny Me in which the woman on the raw foods diet, sits with her friends who are all eating cooked food, and she sits there with this pathetic plate of carrots and sprouts, and then she points to the cooked food and goes "Life" and then she points to the RAW food and goes "NO life".. "there's only half a life without food". How biased and ridiculous is that?
No points for guessing that the producers will have insisted she does that.
I just had to get some thoughts on how master cleanse is shown in the media, and put that bit about raw foods in there for more context.
If you search "super skinny me" on youtube. And if you can access 4oD, the latest one "Will my crash diet kill me?" came out just a week ago.
Enjoy the fakeness :D
PS. This is me trying to generate an actual discussion. No comments of "just ignore them" please.. we already know that :P
PPS. Probably the worst part of this whole issue is the vain, transparent attempts by the journalists to justify their "overweightness" as "healthy" or normal. There was one docu ("Super Slim-Me") in which the journalist went to a holistic doctor and had her body fat measured, expecting to be told it was normal. It was actually obese. After he left, she turns to the camera and goes "I can't believe he said that. That man is dangerous. He could give people an eating disorder", yeah sure. And I suppose all that fat clogging your arteries and heart ISN'T dangerous?
There's nothing more annoying than people implying that ANYTHING can cause an eating disorder. It's a psychological issue! I only have 2 years of psychology A-level behind me but even I can tell you that.
PPPS. I know I'm harsh! I'm very sorry but if you don't like it... then I can't do anything about it ;)