Each week, new challenges shake the canvas and make many followers. After the Blue Whale Challenge, the Thigh Gap Challenge, the Rib Cage, a new dangerous diet is making headlines. The Cinderella Diet- understand Cinderella Diet- advocates a worrying goal: to achieve a body mass index of 18. This trend is symptomatic of the apology of the cult of thinness at any price that reigns on social media. We tell you more.
Wearing thighs that do not touch, ribs protruding, a size that does not exceed the width of an A4 sheet, many trends that arise from Instagram, advocating measurements considered "ideal" with young women vulnerable to diktats of thinness. A new challenge with a taste of sulfur is added to the long list of worrying slimming trends: the Cinderella diet.
The diet is inspired by the eponymous animated princess and has grown in Japan where thinness is a real beauty canon. The process? It is first necessary to calculate its weight "Cinderella", ie the ideal weight to reach a body mass index of 18. However, according to this grid, this indicator is linked to underweight. This objective could lead to deleterious consequences for health but also serious eating disorders. A diet that is part of the pro-ana movement, a group of people advocating anorexia nervosa as a "lifestyle" that raged in the 2000s. Among them, few are aware of the effects of the diet on health.
Amenorrhea and vagal discomfort
Dietitians are alerted to these new slimming trends that take root on social networks. Lyndi Cohen, an Australian dietician, is worried about this success. "The Cinderella diet is scary and dangerous. When your body mass index (BMI) reaches 18, there is a very high risk of undermining the natural functioning of the body, "she explains in the columns of our colleagues in the Daily Mail. "You can feel lethargic, have mood swings, faint and stop getting your period," says the nutrition specialist. The testimonies of aficionados of the Cinderella diet freeze the blood.
Disturbing tweets
A real community of "mutual aid" has emerged around this regime. Some tweets sound the alarm of the parents, helpless against the frenzy of young women. "To have a perfect body, I have to reach 38 kilos. I'm barely 51 kilos. Kill me now "can be read on the microblogging network. "I do not understand why this regime is controversial. Some people just want to be skinny and there is nothing wrong with that. So many testimonies of these women obsessed with a worrying goal.
Sleeping Beauty Diet
Still in the vein of the Disney princesses, another diet inspired by the Sleeping Beauty also shook the canvas. The principle ? Sleep as often as possible to avoid cravings. This worrying slimming trend pushes vice to advocate the ingestion of sedatives and sleeping pills to prevent eating. A behavior that can lead to a strong habituation but also a disruption of the metabolism.
