Generally, you should be wary of nutritional advice on the internet, both in terms of substance and form. Pushing standards of beauty and thinness on sometimes minor audiences can have serious repercussions on the mental and physical health of the most gullible or discouraged viewers, ready to do anything to lose weight. For example, a trend on TikTok encouraged women to take laxatives, which is obviously not recommended.
One of the latest trends on the Chinese social network seems at first glance a little more harmless – even if not very appetizing – since it invites the curious to drink “tadpole-water” or “tadpole water”. Even if it is not necessarily obvious when you know TikTok, fortunately it is not really about ingesting frog larvae, an article from The Conversation reassures us… But then, what are we talking about?
Fans of the mysterious beverage (which really does look a lot like a nice glass of pond water full of baby amphibians) claim that it helps you lose weight, particularly by quickly providing a feeling of satiety, an appetite suppressant. Its detractors find it to have a viscous and sickening texture.
The magic potion is, as the recipe above explains, a simple mix of lemon water and chia seeds. And it may well be effective for weight loss. “Chia seeds are high in fiber, which aids digestion, keeps you feeling full, and regulates blood sugar,” says Hazel Flight, a nutrition researcher at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, England.…
- Slate.fr
