A recent study by the scientific journal “Plos One” revealed on Tuesday that the content of the Tik Tok app can lead to eating disorders and multiple mental illnesses, especially in teenagers.
In detail, scientists and experts have studied and analyzed a thousand videos related to food and fitness, each of which has had more than a billion views on the social network platform Tik Tok.
Watching the videos it is clear that its main themes revolve around the promotion of weight loss and the role of food in improving health and achieving a slim body, in light of the excessive lack of opinion of the experts responsible for raising awareness on this nutritional information. .
Tik Tok strongly emphasizes the regulatory content of weight, which causes many unhealthy eating behaviors and develops nutritional problems and disorders, so much so that there are many stereotypical messages related to appearance that must match the ideal pattern.
“We haven’t garnered expert opinion in these conversations,” Dr. Lizzie Pope, assistant professor in the University of Vermont’s Department of Nutritional Sciences and lead author of the study, told the New York Post.
He added that there is a lot of misinformation in the field of nutrition, so be careful “by helping users distinguish reliable nutritional information and by eliminating” interesting content “found on social media.”
