This burger at TGI Friday’s will give me cankles. #instafat
Oh dear. Here we go again – blaming social media on our weight. The Canadian Obesity Network believe that taking pictures of every meal they eat to social media can lead to a deep medical issue.
At the Canadian Obesity Summit in Vancouver, speaker Dr. Valerie Taylor said people post pictures of foo because they enjoy it, while some do it because food plays a significant role in their lives. Dr Valerie’s presentation at the conference was entitled “Food Fetish: Society’s Complicated Relationship with Food”.
“You don’t take pictures of who you’re with, you take pictures of what you’re eating,” Taylor said. “For some people who have the predisposition for weight behaviors it just goes one stop further, and they start to develop unhealthy weight disorders and they start to have weight problems”.
Taylor also believes that people don’t eat food for its nutritional value anymore. She says that research has shown that food has a more psychological role in people’s daily lives, which is one of the main causes of obesity today.
While we do agree that society’s beginning to live to eat more than they eat to live, it makes no sense why people sharing pictures of what will grant you the case of being fat.
There was a time when women were afraid to tell people what they eat. And now that we can share it with the world for hashtags and likes, you want to take it away?
(Source: CBC)
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