Is anyone else tired of seeing questionable nutritionists/PTs/health gurus?
As a someone who has just started integrating exercising more into their life, I’m starting to see a disturbing trend of these healthfluencers/ pseudo PTs and nutritionists exhibiting disturbing behavior in regard to helping people. This is obviously a spectrum but some of what I’m talking about, in no order of severity, include: making fun of fat people/blaming obesity on laziness, encouraging fad/crash dieting, recommending snake oil like products that promise to grow your ass or something like that, etc. This isn’t even all of what I’ve examined. Not to also mention that a lot of these ppl who make this stuff have also been discovered to be connected to political/ideological pipelines.
It’s so exhausting having to basically do a whole google background check on sm platforms to make sure this person’s health advice doesn’t extend into qannon-esque/ Trad propaganda before I give them a follow. I only exercise to manage my chronic illness (I could care less if I lose weight or not), but I still feel like this should be a ethical concern for people who work in this space, especially ones who champion that fitness is for everyone. Hard to do that when the people who most frequent those spaces are making content that are hostile to those who haven’t drunk the toxic gym bro cool-aide yet. Especially, when they aren’t being called out.
Luckily, I managed to have found a handful of sources for fitness content that I find positive and non-toxic. Idk what everyone’s goals but just know that you don’t have to be mean to yourself in order to get fit. Exercise shouldn’t feel like a chore but in fact should be something that look forward to and is sustainable for your schedule and abilities. How you get there is up to you. In times like this, nobody is immune to propaganda. Make sure you research everything you internalize from this space before you make a determination on whether to include it in your life.