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Was prevalent in many everyday items the toxins are now leeching into the oceans and being absorbed by Orca causing damage to their reproductive capability b.b.c. News. Hello this is a saw show on the b.b.c. World Service with me Ben Carter I'm with me and had entered a program how do you bring up your sons if you're a feminist we'll hear from us and sons from different cultural backgrounds about the impact of feminism on my mother son bond plus how do you work out how many people have died as a result of a hurricane But 1st Mike Wendling a nice to see but all take an in-depth look at the impact of social media on people who are trying to lose weight. Now and I'm making a bit of an effort to get into shape Oh really my Yeah so I've been a bit slack lately on the old exercise front has been a lot going on here trending the horn I don't have hard to find the time but enough excuses I'm starting to run in the park I do have to do yoga in the morning well in that case Mike now I stay and are you serious you have a dad knowledge like I'm totally serious I'm not even exaggerating just for the purposes of our story today why would I ever do that really I'm feeling pretty good about it but I do know that if I needed a hand I needed some outside support is plenty of things out there I could turn to a ton of fitness apps that do all sorts of things there are diet trackers this technology to help you drink less quit smoking whatever it is you want to do to improve your health and included in all that of course is social media. I think you can safely call the emphasis on fitness and health a mega trend there are a huge number of accounts social media influencers and a ton of products it's big business a quick search for the hash tag fit spiration on any social network brings up literally millions of images close ups of ultra defined abs huge biceps before or after pictures keep. And workout gear lifting weights all sorts of stuff but is it actually a good idea to turn to social networks if you want to lose weight. You're listening to b.b.c. Trending the lean low fat program that takes an in-depth look at the world of social media Mike you asked a big question at the top there so let's try and break it down a bit but 1st a health warning if you're looking to lose weight especially a lot of ways consult a professional your doctor or g.p. And they can give you the right advice absolutely Now my own interest in this started when I heard about a study by Tim squirrel 10 is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and essentially what I do is I look at Internet communities and I look at how people in those communities decide who and what to believe to look specifically at self-improvement communities on Reddit Now that's a a social network a really popular one but it has some fundamental differences with some of the others that you might be familiar with its text heavy rather than picture led like Instagram and there are some other differences too it's likely that a large number of people who are listening to this have used Facebook or Twitter or youtube or Instagram and that they are aware that generally speaking those platforms tend to involve you interacting with people that you already know in the real world or at least are sort of one degree of separation from you read it is people you don't know sharing things that you do care about so right it is almost entirely based around what are called subjects which are individual communities which are devoted to particular things so the really big ones of these are places like our politics and they all have a sort of our slash in front of them so our politics or our music on movies or whatever but there are smaller and smaller ones until you get down in the air extremely nice stuff and somewhere in the middle there are things. I like our Paleo and that means that people who are in these communities are drawn together by a common interest so people decide what content the most relevant to them and to their community and in the voter and then that appears to other people and they can then comment on it and so ideally the things that are most helpful most relevant most useful to you and often most funny are the things that appear even her to mention Paleo Diet enthusiastic yes paleo you better explain this because I have a relative who says they're paleo I have no idea what they eat so we've heard it possible I think everybody knows somebody who's on a paleo diet so it's also known as the caveman diet and it focuses on foods that we can theoretically hunts all find in nature the same way our hunter gatherer ancestors did before the agricultural revolution so we're talking about meat fish eggs and less of things that require cultivation like say barley in grains so outgo things like bread and pasta and you can pretty much say goodbye to carbs deep fried snacks and microwave meals not the one for me clearly as I struggle with my daily intake of hash browns I know Mike not to approach you until you've had your daily fix of 3 hash browns So the point that Tim squirrel makes is that these communities devoted to the Paleo diet can be very useful in keeping people on the diet all recommending various tips all swapping recipes. Now in addition to keeping strange is on the straight and narrow Tim says there's another benefit that it provides because it's focused around subject matter rather than individuals it doesn't tend to get dominated by big personalities that is social media celebrities or influences or people with a high follow accounts on Reddit you tend to get a lot more voices weighing in giving advice and sharing their personal stories and Tim says that's a good thing when it comes to dieting often they'll share their failures as well as their successes and they'll say you know I did this thing but before that I tried these things and these things and these things Another them worked and here's how this thing is work but it hasn't actually completely solve my problem I think that kind of new aunts is what often missing from somewhere like Instagram or something like Facebook or somewhere like Twitter in particular where you've got the character limit which makes it quite declamatory often quite confrontational whereas Reddit has a much much expanded character limit as in if you're hitting the character and you probably post an essay and that means that people really are able to get into the nitty gritty of their experience is not particularly helpful for that. I mentioned influences often these big social media stars are running their accounts as businesses and as we said before there were a huge number of fitness guru on social media led it is some would say with fresh free of influences trying to sell you their diet plans or diet food or exercise machines or whatever it is and so the conversation on Reddit is driven by quote real people. Tim's girl says that's a lot different from the big fitness accounts on a network like for example Instagram if you are on Instagram often the aspiration for you will be to get sponsored or to be adverts or to be picked up by some kind of brand as a brand ambassador and the consequence of that is that you have more of an incentive to embellish and to propagandize as it were than I think you do on something like Reddit we asked him how my implements askew the way you try to lose weight and get healthy they say here is my exercise regime here is what I'm consuming they'll put pictures and videos and that sort of thing up and then people will identify with that and then they'll sort of as a result of that will be more driven to do things like buy supplements from a person or use their discount codes for sponsorship deals or take a personal training course from that person so there's a big business side of this as well. And how does this actually pay out among all those real people on Reddit Well earlier we talked to 23 year old Joey Morgan Ellie from Michigan in the u.s. Who told us about his weight loss journey which started in April of 2050 I just interviewed hi 1st job and got it and I was starting in May and I lost about 20 pounds at that point because I had to hit about 400 pounds to walk I couldn't do anything that a normal 20 year old was supposed to do 400 pounds well that is 180 kilos Yes Joe it was seriously overweight and his story is one of a constant daily fights he said he would feel anxious about food and although he lost some weight he was becoming discourage which led him to spend more time alone I became even more reclusive I basically started myself because I was so scared to eat because every time I ate I would actually panic and it sounds silly that you know eating a cheeseburger causes somebody to panic but at the end of the data that was my trigger was you know greasy food bad food. And so this was July of 2017 now I'm 318 if you're listening in metric that's about 145 kilos so he was still overweight but that's a big drop Joe he says he was encouraged by the community on Reddit that he was part of it was breast taking to see the support you get from people that you don't even know sometimes that affirmation is more important than even you know the people closest to you know because they don't have a biased opinion about you you know they don't have this preconceived notion about you you would trust people that you don't even know. Joe is Isa and Tim squirrel is an academic Fair enough but we shouldn't need to get the feel of a trained health professional Christi percents is a registered dietitian in Chicago and for the most part she agrees with the research that indicates that social media set up or sees a not necessarily very good feel healthy. Meals are nutritionally balanced maybe they're promoting avoiding carbohydrates altogether or adding coconut oil to everything when you know you know that's not the healthiest fat you could be choosing if there's one points Christie would like to make it is that there's a lot of confusing or just plain bad suffice that influences a peddling on social media consumers are of these messages will respond and say oh I didn't realize I needed to be adding coconut oil to everything and then go in circles say oh yes it's the best thing you could be eating here you know here's a website I and you can get one free if you use my special code kind of thing so in fact they're promoting a product versus trying to help people so I think the waters are pretty mighty by you know a lot of paid endorsements as well and it just further adds to all of the confusion people have about nutrition and food but Christie doesn't share Tim schools in P.C.'s I'm full. Read it as a way to help you lose weight the negative thing about being able to hide behind that anonymity is that people will say things on Reddit that they would never say to an actual person or even say you know on Facebook or something that is linked to your actual name and identity again this is something we've seen be full on Reddit and at the social networks but in fairly different contexts but it is a site that has grappled with extremist communities like women hating in cells and other hate communities these are groups with participation is made easier by the pseudonyms that people can hide behind. When it comes to diets let me give you an example Mike this is some practical 1200 calories is plenty which is just pain wrong for the vast majority of adults a very small woman who isn't very active could potentially live on 1200 calories a day but it probably isn't recommended for most of us that's nowhere near enough most expense agree that men need about 200000 calories a day women on average about 2000 and I actually had a client who was a member of the group and got at 1st a lot of support there and then when she started working with me we did a calculation and realize she was dramatically under eating and feeling awful you know low energy she wasn't able to meet her nutrient needs so working together we increased what she was having and all of the sudden she started dropping weight RINGBACK and feeling better and feeling more energized so she went back to the red a group and said you know this energy level isn't enough for everybody I know it wasn't for me and here is my experience and she was completely attacked by that group and told that I must be a hack 1st time think very beautiful little bit more to support her workout Krista told us. 2nd story about another kind of hers who was sent me nots helped by social media I do have a client who came to me after she was following some different social media employment service and was inspired to do something called intermittent fasting she was following some individuals who recommended that you stop eating at around 6 o'clock at night and then don't eat anything else until about noon the next day so the reason this client came to me was she was getting all of her information on how to do this just from social media and what she found was that she would wake up in the middle of the night you know feeling shaky and have to eat something and she ended up feeling like she had had a she had to miss a lot of work so she came to me saying you know I'm really trying and I've reached out for support but I need to sit down and talk with somebody about how to make this work for me so I think that's just one example of how we see these trends on social media and think that person got amazing results and you know you kind of look at it maybe yourself and do a lot of comparisons which social media really breathes and that can only be walking away feeling like you're not good enough there's a pattern 1000000000 up here for sure yeah Simply put you need to be aware of how you're using social media if you want to lose weight or improve health now remember Joey the man who lost weight with the support of Reddit Well unfortunately the weight did not stay off from January to April of this year I dropped down to $261.00 from $296.00 and then I started another new job in May of this year so June is when it really started to let myself go just because there was a lot of stress ago once I got my obviously comforting thing in life is food. And now from June to now I'm back up to 350. We should again remind listeners Mike that wherever you are if you're looking to lose ways the 1st person you should see is you talk to your health care professional because they can give you personal advice not every diocese out there is suitable for every individual Now let's return to the subject of influences they exist on nearly all social media platforms and they come in all shapes and sizes although when it comes to health and fitness they definitely fear towards the mall muscly and skinny but there's no entry example qualification that you need to get before you can become an influencer I feel that many of the dietitian is really a full time job and then some and I think as I said a lot of the information is coming from individuals who don't have the expertise to be you know counseling people Christopher set our dietician from Chicago calls this one of her main concerns about influences on Instagram and elsewhere that while a few of the mice have training and qualifications the vast majority don't personal trainers usually need insurance and awareness of anatomy and physiology 1st aid training and a qualification and of course other health care professionals have specialized training even multiple degrees. And there's another issue with glossy perfectly pose social media pictures of beautiful skinny people they can create unrealistic expectations and if as is likely you don't meet those expectations your health regime can just go to pieces. There's a growing body of evidence showing that social media can have adverse impacts on mental health it's a subject for a whole other program I think but let me give you one piece of evidence there was a survey done here in the u.k. Last year that had rated Instagram as the social network that had the worst impact on the mental health of young people and it seems that some would be influences are thinking hard about what kind of influence they're having I've come to a place in social media where I've learned to embrace it and I think the images I present are authentic t