TikTok is full of creators offering advice on how to improve your mental health, fight anxiety or spot the symptoms of depression. With millions of users exposed to these tips, it’s fair to wonder how trustworthy they are. Young people are increasingly using social networks as a search engine. On TikTok in particular, mental health … Read more
A Tik Tok El influencer famoso por predicar los beneficios de comer carne cruda ha sido acusado de usar esteroides por otra personalidad de Internet que afirma haber visto correos electrónicos filtrados del mismo hombre que detallan qué drogas usa. Brian Johnson, más conocido por su seudónimo en línea ‘Liver King’, saltó a la fama … Read more
Growing up the fat kid in her Long Island neighborhood, 36-year-old Morit Summers hated who she saw in the mirror. He weighed over 200 pounds, and doctors recommended fad diets and weight-loss surgery. She only made her feel worse. Then, when she was 14, her family hired a personal trainer who worked with her on … Read more
While posting your weight loss journey or sharing your weekly grocery shopping with friends and followers on TikTok and other social media It may seem harmless, videos and hashtags like #WhatIEatInADay can actually help promote unhealthy eating behaviors in young adults, a new to study published in PLOS One found. Researchers at the University of … Read more
A 72-year-old woman says people are surprised when they find out she’s not in her 20s and attributes her youthful appearance to eating raw food every day, exercising regularly and avoiding alcohol. The influencer, who has more than 488,700 followers on tik tok, stuns viewers with videos showcasing his fitness prowess; with bits of aerial … Read more
About a year into the pandemic, Kianna, a high school student in Baltimore, felt increasingly isolated. As she sat alone in her bedroom, she had too much time to think, she said, so she sometimes obsessed over her seclusion or began to criticize her appearance. “I remember being on TikTok for hours during the day,” … Read more
TikTok influencer Feroza Aziz takes a selfie with friends in an arcade in new PBS documentary … [+] “TikTok Boom”. Shane Sigler Most parents wouldn’t dream of letting their child eat an experimental new food or take a new drug without seeing the research behind it – the controversy over children and COVID-19 vaccines over … Read more
Photo: sfilippovs (Shutterstock) The latest fitness misinformation is making the rounds on TikTok, but I’ve seen it crop up elsewhere, also. Young women are singing the praises of Pilates (sometimes along with barre, yoga and walking), saying that it helped them lose weight and tone their muscles where lifting weights didn’t. Something about cortisol. And … Read more