A specialist has called for a ban on #WaterTok and ‘What I Eat in a Day’ TikTok trend - saying they encourage disordered eating among young people. The hashtag #WaterTok is used by people who make ‘recipes’ using water and flavoured ‘skinny’ syrups - like ‘Orange Creamsicle’ and ‘Grape Gatorade’.
Some influencers are encouraging their followers to drink these instead of eating meals. The ‘What I Eat in a Day’ trend involves people documenting their daily meals and compiling them into one clip - and usually includes a calorie count at the end.
Martha Williams, 28, a specialist for eating disorder charity Beat, believes these trends are “really dangerous” - and only serve to “make thoughts about disordered eating worse". Martha, Beat's senior clinical advice co-ordinator, from London, said: “As the trends have developed, people are using them to instruct their followers to engage in the same behaviours - it’s really dangerous.
