A study concludes that TikTok content that promotes 'personal responsibility for meeting weight expectations,' perpetuates diet culture that glorifies thinness and weight loss among teens and young adults
Almost 44 percent of all the videos analyzed for the study included content about weight loss, while 20.4 percent of videos showed a person’s weight transformation, according to the study.
COLORADO MOTHER SUES FACEBOOK, ALLEGES DAUGHTER'S ADDICTION TO PLATFORM HAS CAUSED MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS "Assigning good or bad labels to food brings emotion and morality to eating," the study said."These emotions are internalized as we eat, and eating a food deemed ‘bad’ by diet culture’s standards may lead to negative perceptions of self after consumption."
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