Skinny Tea To Tragedy: The Deadly Reality of Diet Trends. When Beauty Turns Ugly
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How do you know if the supplements you are taking are safe?….or even legal?
Unfortunately for those in todays video, they had no idea that the diet pills they had bought online, were actually deadly.
And today I want to discuss the major issues involved with supplements, skinny teas, detoxes and dangerous diets that unfortunately went viral and started a dangerous dieting trend.
00:00 intro
00:56 My diet pill experience
01:32 How do fat burners work
03:12 Deadly DNP
04:17 Bethany Shipsey's Passing
06:37 Arrests Made
07:03 Chris Moffat's Passing
07:58 Legal Fat Burner Related Deaths
08:52 The Problem With Skinny Tea
11:08 Problematic SkinnyMe Tea
13:29 Instagram BANS Skinny Tea
16:10 The Tapeworm Diet
19:09 Outro
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You said excuse my hair and I was just going to say how much I liked it like that 😅
Me too, it's giving every short hairsyle in sailor moon
Same!
me too!
First thing I noticed is how nice his hair looked!! 😂❤
I agree. I thought he looked dashing with that hair.
I had tape worm when I was around 7 years old and it was EXTREMELY unpleasant, I was so uncomfortable and ill from it. I would never in a million years infect myself on purpose, not to mention that you'd be putting everyone else in your household at risk too.
I have to ask how did you get it if you know and are willing to share. So sorry you went through that I’m so scared of tapeworms I can’t even imagine
HORRIFYING. 😭 i am however fascinated by creepy crawlies that are _actually_ used in modern medicine! leeches can be used to increase blood flow when reattaching a limb, and certain maggots can be used to clean necrotic wounds since their saliva is antibacterial and the are very precise in targeting only dead tissue! more precise than tools!
@@b.randey4599 they likely ingested it unknowingly via contaminated food (like meat, for example). It's quite rare for it to happen but it's not impossible.
@@b.randey4599Raw or undercooked meat (beef, pork or fish) is a common cause in the modern world.
@b.randey4599 handling cat litter without wearing gloves, and flea bites can also transmit them.
I was cat-sitting for a relative, and their cat was horribly sick with them, and when they found out how expensive treatment was, I ended up with my cat.
I remember an ex-friend of mine trying to get me to do a diet with her and thought it was a good idea until she told me it was to essentially starve myself for 2 weeks and only consume water and supplement pills. I was like, "That's not a diet, that's just starving yourself like you're on a deserted island. That's going to damage your body." She told me that it was ok, that many people have done it, and after you finish the "diet" you need to eat soft food like soup to train your stomach to eat again. I told her that's literally the medical treatment given to survivors who've been lost in the wilderness and nearly starved to death. Needless to say, I did not partake and found out later she had multiple eating disorders. We had just graduated high school. A lot more education and therapy should be given to minors about the dangers of these "diets".
I'm so so so glad you didn't do that to yourself! It brakes my heart to hear people do that to get "skinny" poor thing. So proud of you for saying no.
I am 57. This has been going on forever. I remember when it was Phentermine. People only care about what people look like, and it will only continue to kill. I commend you for addressing this, and I love your introduction.
Are you targeted with menopausal belly ads, too? Sheesh.
@kellyburnett1833 phentermine is still being prescribed to people to this day. I’m a nurse in a hospital doing preop screenings of patients for surgery and I’ve seen a recent resurgence of people taking phentermine. Our anesthesia group will not give anesthesia unless the patient has been off of it for a week because of the cardiac problems that can occur while receiving anesthesia.
@@fatbottomgirl5349 😲
Is phentermine the one that gives people heart palpitations and problems? I remember my dad went on prescription weight loss pills about a decade or so ago.. maybe longer than that.. (and they made him crazy too… he’d get really angry at anything really easily- even more so than his typical behavior lol) and it turned out that people were dying from it and there was huge lawsuit against the company. So maybe it wasn’t phentermine but something else.. but it was *extremely* popular for years until the lawsuit. I thought they pulled it from the market…
@@fatbottomgirl5349 when I hit a plateau with my weight loss my GP gave me a prescription for phentermine to "help kick start" my weight loss again so you're absolutely right. It didn't really do anything to me though, hah.
I recently went through quite a bad kidney infection that made me lose a bunch of weight rapidly because I was not eating much at all. I took time off work and then when everyone saw my noticeable weight loss they congratulated me. However I told them it was because I was sick and it's actually worrying me that I'm still shedding pounds. Yet they would all mostly say that maybe it was worth it.
That is so horrible, sometimes I wonder if people are really that oblivious. I wish you a speedy recovery!
@@sonjapersch6074 thank you!
That kidney infection sounds absolutely awful. I hope you're recovering well and your appetite starts to return soon! I've lost a lot of weight this year because I've been too depressed to feed myself and it's super uncomfortable when people say things like "have lost weight? you look well"
That's fuckin horrible
That's like my stomach infection. I can't eat anything outside of rice crackers, soup, boiled veggies and anything with no flavour really. It's a pain in the ass. Losing a whole lot of weight with it too. And people go oh you're finally being more healthy!
Meanwhile you're sitting in your bed with no energy and vitamin related health issues cause you can't eat enough to keep yourself functioning. It's not fun.
Hell when someone asked me what diet I did I just flat out told them to just eat regular portions and sport for an hour a day cause that's healthier than whatever I am doing now. I gotta wait for my stomach to heal but I also hope I don't keep losing weight. This much is unhealthy.
these were already so sad and horrific to think about, but the tapeworm story actually reminded me of something just as terrible on the exact opposite end of the spectrum: a friend of a friend was attempting a "detox" and ended up... taking several coffee enemas for weeks. they later sent out pics of their actual literal shit in the toilet saying "look at this huge worm i just passed from my detox!" and my friend eventually had to tell them like dude, that's not a parasite you had... that's straight up part of your intestinal lining. 🤢 the things we do in the name of "health", like pretending that being thin automatically makes you healthy...
That’s actually insane! Hope your friend is alright now.
@@NeoStar thankfully they are totally fine! the experience definitely humbled them from trying every detox they read about 😂
I’ve got a friend who has been drinking laxatives for weight loss her entire adult life (20 years) and she’s always thin.
My mom was an extremely strict raw vegan for many years. She would drink these smoothies she called "green detox smoothies". Which translated to her having to run to the bathroom to poop every hour. I swear. We couldn't go out for a day of leisure without her needing a bathroom 45 minutes after just having used one. It got so bad her fingers started to loose sensation and her arms and feet would go numb. When we finally convinced her to see a doctor, he ran some tests and told her her body wasn't producing enough blood. That's why her appendages were going numb. She couldn't produce enough blood to properly circulate blood to her whole body. She also lost a lot of hair, and her teeth got really thin and yellow. Luckily since then she has left the vegan diet behind and is now much better. Her hair is slowly filling in
But yes, she did all that for weight loss.
Veganism is not a diet, it is a lifestyle committed to ending animal cruelty. Eating only fruit or leafy veggies to lose weight or “be healthy” is an eating disorder. Calling it veganism is just a way to distract from the mental illness leading you to starve yourself.
The only time we tried diet teas is when my sister was severely constipated. I knew the whole point of those 'weight loss' teas was to make you poo, so I bought them. She said no dice for days, but then she came to me and said she had a whole new relationship with the toilet. Cured her constipation, but she has never touched them again 😂
That's how I feel about those "dieter teas" you can get at the Asian food markets. They are no joke!
They do make decent laxatives 😅. I drink a quart or so once a month to keep my pipes running decently and take some good probiotics. Good gut bacteria.
i found them in my moms tea cabinet, thankfully she had stopped using them, but knowing what they did, i used them for exactly what you described 😂
It’s senna leaves, great for short term solution in desperate cases😂
Btw don’t use them chronically (like almost daily for months) to the point where your intestines become lazy and don’t contract on their own as much as it should though 😅
😂😂 smart
Your wavy hair was actually a vibe. It looked so fluffy and voluminous.
as a chemistry student, seeing the 2,4-dinitrophenol is WILD, i’m so used to it in a lab setting that seeing it in this context made me do a double take lol
As a biology student, learning about what it does inside your cells makes it SO scary lol
@@gracesmiley3364 god i’m gonna have to learn about it i’m too curious now 😭
Never heard about this compound, or the death cases... I don't generally read tabloids which would probably cover this topic the most. But reading about it, it was used as a diet pill in 1930s, just to be banned within a decade. Back then people really used all sorts of stuff and DDT was considered safe and used widely! Imagine that. Amphetamines came on later, just to be banned too. Nobody bans ultra processed food industry though, that is the culprit of making people fat while making them eat like pigs, because it was designed like that.
as someone familiar with chemistry even the name itself, "phenol" 😮 why would anyone willingly ingest this thing
@@klaudiar7347 polyphenols are very beneficial for us, the whole range of them. Our health depends on them, actually. So that you know. The same goes for di-hydrogen monoxide. We depend on it. Sounds scary, but just a name of the compound doesn't say much without a context and broader knowledge. Don't throw a baby with the bath water. Most people aren't familiar with chemistry. And that's the point.
The problem imo starts with how nasty people can be. More often than not, people will judge others for being overweight. It's not your body. You don't know them or their lives. If that person can't change something about themselves in less than 5 seconds, shut your mouth.
I lost a scary amount of weight last year dealing with serious disease. I started as a size 4, then lost thirty five pounds, I looked skeletal and I hated it. It bothered me how many times people would gush over how “good I looked”, when I felt terrible and didn’t know what my future was. It scared me how peoples perception has become so skewed that they think being seriously underweight is good?😳
@@FlawlessImperfectionBeauty I mean, there are plenty of people doing the exact opposite now too. I'm at a normal BMI currently, though I've frequently been in and out of the overweight category on the past. I visit family in the east, get asked how to slim down, I go back west, I get told I look half-starved and "unsexy", and to pack on some pounds 😑 Crazy how people's perceptions of what normal weight is has changed. It's like things made a complete 180 post 2010.
Being overweight or obese is extremely dangerous to your health science proved that it's called doctors , surgeons etc get away from the toxic body positive movement it will kill you
The worst part about tapeworms is they dig into your intestinal lining with their "teeth" (mouthparts) and this can damage it pretty badly. Even after you "poo" it out 😂😂😂😂 it can leave lasting damage to your gastrointestinal tract.
For the first time in my life, this year I've had a good relationship with food, my body and exercise. The culture around diet products are often so unhealthy- I've thankfully never fallen into the trap of these dangerous teas and supplements, but it's so important to discuss these topics. To anyone else struggling with body image etc, please know that things can change for the better, and recovery is definitely worth it.
So happy to hear it! :)
A virtual hi5! I would have never expected to recover🙃 and to this day I have a voice in my head saying it's time to start a new diet (i was a chronic "dieter") but it's such a faint, unimportant voice by now. So glad that I didn't give up and hope others won't either❤️
@@gpgp1841 I know what you mean. It seems like that voice mjght never go away, but it has no power anymore! Hi5 right back at you
That is amazing. I work at a gym, and my co-workers always talk about cheat days and weight loss, and it's something that concerns me because the conversations my co-workers and some customers have are heavily rooted in diet culture, but they don't see how damaging it really is/can be. My supervisor (boss) is trying to lose weight, and she has been switching diets regularly; from low carb to keto in a matter of weeks, she weighs herself everyday (sometimes multiple times a day). If feel like gyms shouldn't promote diet culture and I feel like gyms/personal trainers should teach that there is no such thing as good or bad foods and that food can impact your weight but maintaining eating and exercising balance will have the best impact on your body and mental health. I believe you can eat what you want and still achieve the body you want you just have to manage.
@00Rav3n00 It boggles the mind how bad it is at gyms(and why I stopped going). I went there for exercise, and knew I would GAIN weight as my muscle mass increased. To hear people talk about how little they ate as they did intensive workouts(I did 100+ lb leg lifts, rowing, pectoral/shoulder workouts(keeping my shoulders fit keeps injuries I had as a youth from impacting my day-to-day), cardio, and fed my muscles loads of proteins and enough carbs to stop my hypoglycemia from being a PitA. I never had good looking abs, and after having kiddo, the muscle tears insured they'd look less so, and I couldn't care less. My only spot I want to fix are my triceps, as I inherited the family chicken wings. My stepdad, who used to live at Gold's(until diet culture ruined the atmosphere) Gym, helped me with a basic routine so I could avoid it, and at least be healthy.
I walked into a gym this year for the first time in two decades after getting a try it free offer, as I wanted to work on my arms on the rowing machines and regain their former shape, and use some treadmill machines, as it's better than walking in the heat, heard someone talk about eating 800 calories a day with only 8g carbs, so they could fit into a dress and walked out. I'm going to be snagging some new wrist and ankle weights so I can workout at home, because I can't listen to that without speaking my mind at them, and I know that they won't care.
I'm so glad you did this james,I was a big runner,weighed 7 and a half stone. Very fit..Started to take thermabol daily,just to give me a boost. Had my first 2 strokes due to caffeine content being so high.i couldn't walk for 6 months. I had undiagnosed heart issues. Didn't know. Ive learned to love my body now,curves are normal ❤meditation helped this..I love the way your not afraid to talk about sensitive subjects.Its shocking how easily led we are for a quick fix . 👏👏👏
So pleased that you are now healthy and living a life accepting your body . I hope you have a long and wonderful life 💕
I had anorexia years back and it started from this diet pill called "garcinia combodia". My parents found those one day and asked me if I was doing drugs. Idk if it did anything to my body but I recovered from my ED after 2 years and had a pretty good relationship with my body and food. Sadly I relapsed 6 months ago and got diagnosed with bulimia. Hopefully someday this will pass and I will recover and love my body again
I'm so sorry you have to go through all this. I hope you will recover soon and learn to love your body just the way it is ❤ sending love and prayers to you dear ❤❤❤❤❤
im over a year into bulimia recovery (my teeth were being dissolved which scared me into trying to recover) and its been hard but god is it worth it, im 1 year clean this week, i really hope you can recover soon
@@LouRyderr thank you so much. this too shall pass
@@elvenbugs wow! I'm so proud of you
@@perified you know what they say, it gets worse before it gets better (or something like that, I don't remember the exact saying). I have my own eating problems, since I have sick pancreas and don't feel hunger most of the time and I'm also very limited with how much my body allows me to eat. It's nothing compared to your issues, but these bad times will pass for both of us I hope ❤️
To my shame, I got sucked into buying a teatox at the height of marketing. I only took them for a couple of days before researching them and realising the amount of 'tea babies' women had had due to the tea interfering with the OCP, I absolutely freaked out lol
I was hooked in what the hel tea babies were, I looked it up every way I can from vague to iddly specific and all Im getting is ads for tea for babies 💀
@@acid_tongue_4315that’s actually hilarious. I looked up what OCP was “oral contraceptive pill” and managed to figure it out.
Now it’s time to Google your way out again I guess.
@@acid_tongue_4315OCP is oral contraceptive pills, i think she's saying the tea made people's birth control stop working and thus, unwanted pregnancy from drinking skinny teas
@@acid_tongue_4315 😆😆 they were unplanned pregnancies from the tea making the pill not work 🙈🙈
@@fionarath319 thank you
My friend and I used to drink this "skinny tea" from the Asian market as a laxative... because, let's be real, that's exactly what it is. Once, her husband drank an entire jug of it thinking that it was normal tea! Needless to say, he was in extreme agony for DAYS!😱😭
Oh no! That poor man! One time I left a laxative tea bag to steep for too long and it messed me up, I can only imagine how drinking an excess would feel 😢
Ooze pic is the new fad and we do not know how those that do not use it for diabetics will fare. Worrisome.
But a great time to schedule a colonoscopy!
I'm in recovery from a mixture of eating disorders so I have to be careful with content like this, but it's good to see unhealthy diet practices not being glamorised.
At my worst I used to buy all kinds of unknown diet supplements online - mostly tablets but some foot patches as well. I was taking all sorts of weird things trying to lose weight, as well as overexercising which resulted in me sustaining a knee injury that still occasionally flares and causes me pain over 10 years later. Diet culture and normalising all these weird diet pills is so dangerous, and it's often people who have skewed views of how they look that are buying potentially lethal drugs.
My boyfriend asked me while I was watching this why anyone would buy drugs from the dark web or unknown sources, but I explained that when you're not thinking clearly because of an eating disorder or body dysmorphia, you don't think about these things, you just want to do anything to lose weight. It's really horrible. I'm very careful now not to set those old thinking patterns off, I avoid triggers as I don't want to go back to that dark place. To anyone struggling - recovery is possible, keep fighting through each day. It can and will get better.
I grew up skinny by nature, lived worry-free and in blissful ignorance until I suddenly gained 20 kg that won't leave anymore... came here to remind me of real priorities... thank you, James.
He truly is doing God's work here.
Not me eating dinner and the tapeworm diet coming up. 🤢 I remember hearing that story years ago and it was just as horrifying as it was then as it is now.
I feel like that story is a huge example as to why diet culture & beauty standards are so dangerous. Some people feel like they have no other option other than to do these dangerous practices to reach these beauty standards and that just breaks my heart.
I'm eating while listening to this too
I took Fen Phen in the 90's. I lost a lot of weight very quickly . I was thrilled. I stopped when it was determined how dangerous they could be, however, that was the start of an eating disorder. Thank you for bringing light to these weight loss products. I'm 55 now and still struggle with an unhealthy relationship with food. I'm world's better, but so wish I had known that my worth is not determined by my weight. ❤️
I am speaking with both nutritionist and therapist to get over my issues. What has helped me was meal planning and keeping to a meal schedule.
Let me guess, you've been struggling with this for decades but still have yet to see a counselor, correct? That's why you've been struggling for decades honey, get some help.
The nasty story about the tapeworm, was worth it for your reaction alone 😂!
I remember I had posted pictures of my weight loss on my IG back in 2018 and my weight loss was from just eating a dairy-free diet; however, I saw my pictures being used on one of those skinny tea/ detox tea websites claiming I had lost weight from using their product, but they had cropped my head off. I had asked them to remove my pictures because I didn’t use their product, but they just ignored me. Other people started to notice more stolen images to promote their teas and many people (myself included) kept reporting their account until they finally shut down, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just restarted a new account
Oh my gosh my experiences.
1- tried the dexamphetamine prescribed by the GP before, I think I only had 1 script. Didn't help, also was SO MUCH MORE HUNGRY once I quit them.
2- the green tea fat burner (most fat burners) sent me into a HORRIBLE panic attack. Never ever touching that stuff again.
3- the laxative teas, that turned into just taking laxatives post surgery because I'd starved myself for 2years to lose weight for the surgery, and then the 2 surgeries on top of the starving made my bowels all messed up, and then I relied on the laxatives and ah. I may have permanent damage from that, but after a year I feel like it's starting to become normal.
It's really hard not "dieting" to lose fat when my natural body is heavy. I have a big skeletal frame (hips, shoulders, ribs) and gain muscle so easy, just a mini-tank, and then having a healthy amount of fat on top of that just makes me look huge, and thick strong women aren't liked, especially growing up in the heroin-chic millenial era that I did. I looked at photos of me as a 15yo, showed them to my kids this week, and I couldn't believe I thought I was fat. I use to cry from being teased about how ugly and fat I was and I looked fucking amazing. And even now, I'm so strong, so healthy, I'm the smallest I've ever been, but I keep comparing myself to others and thinking I'm huge. I hate it. And I'm so sick of starving myself so I'm not. I eat what I want, I work out heaps (Muay Thai and weight lifting) and I feel and look amazing. Just need to shut the voices up in my head.
Yes, I understand this feeling. I spent years being told I was too big. It's only been in the last year that my brother got through to me with the reality that he and I are very similar in that our genetics dictate that we are built dense with large bones and a tendency to build a lot of muscle very fast. Honestly, finding out that functional fitness was an option was probably the best thing to happen to my relationship with my body in years. The focus on what I can do rather than what I look like or the number on the scale is much less fraught with discouragement.
@@MeMe-Moi yes! There needs to be more focus on health, healthy habits, and what our bodies are able to do, not just what they bloody look like.
I remember when I was younger and I hated my hips. I wanted to be a stick like the other girls, but it was never going to happen. No matter how little I ate, I would never be able to change my body shape. I’m 30 now and it’s crazy to see pictures of 16 year old me that was 9 stone and thinking I was obese. I really thought I was, it takes a long time to overcome body dismorphia, and to fade those voices in your head.
As a woman with a bigger frame my body holds onto fat like I'm going to starve at any time. I feel you so much. It took me 20 years, but I found what works for me and It's technically a "trend" even though I follow a relaxed version. I asked my doctor before starting and all i got back was an "okay". It just depends on what your body needs and what you want out of your life.
So much of that mindset is the era we were raised in. Having heroin chic and then low-rise jeans/exposed midriff in rapid succession was just hell on womens’ self esteem. I was thin. Like, *thin* thin, and I still starved myself because I thought I needed to be thinner. No muffin top!!! And by that point your perception of yourself is SO warped, you can’t see what’s in front of your face. I am so proud of many of the young women today, rejecting that mindset. It’s not perfect but it is so much better than it was in the 90s/00s.
I’ve never gone as far as diet teas and the like, but I’ve presumably tried every fad diet on this planet.
Background: I never had problems with weight. I was an hourglass figure, about 5 centimetres too tall for a woman. Then I got ill and ended up with an unending amount of pills, in a desperate bid to keep me alive. Those pills increased my weight at an unnerving rate and no amount of counting calories in or out helped me change the trajectory.
Well, that’s where I lost my nerve and just tried *anything* the internet, a health guru or some bargain bin book would throw at me. People treated me differently - substantially worse - literally every week of weight gain. I hated what I saw in the mirror, I didn’t recognise myself anymore. I struggled being close with my partner, not because he was grossed out, but because I was. I constantly had to disclose to complete strangers my medical situation in order to put some breaks on the constant comments on my body - often with little effect.
Also, I can tell you, that diet advice is everywhere. Any magazine you pick up at the dentist? Diet advice! The algorithm realising you want to lose weight? Diet advice! Visiting that aunt who only knew you before your health collapsed? Diet advice!
Well, I tried it all and I seriously messed with my health as a result. My digestion was awful for literal *years*, because of the weird stuff I was throwing at myself, hoping that this was finally the solution. I became so weak, I struggled to get out of bed, because I was fasting for silly amounts of time - combined with my health crisis, this was incredibly *bad*.
My weight did stabilise eventually (though the doctors told me it had nothing to do with my diet, just what happens with medication triggered weight gain). Didn’t matter to me! It was *working*! I just needed to do MORE!!
Honestly, it was a nightmare. They only managed to put my head back on straight in hospital. It took years for my relationship with diet culture, food and my body to normalise. My health getting better and the associated pill reduction leading to almost instant weight loss, also somewhat helped. That and the body positivity/healthy at every size movement. The latter helped me figure out exercises I could do with my new body and encouraged me to just…eat healthily no matter what the number on the scale says. The former helped me slowly feel less disgusted with my new form.
I now hit the gym or my sport group 5 times a week and cook a lot from scratch. Realistically I am in better shape than I’ve been all of my life. I am still plus sized though, have those lovely stretch marks extremely rapid weight gain gifts you and some flabby skin. The whole experience has left me incredibly resentful with the entire diet industry and often, even other people who are the biggest part of the problem. If my environment hadn’t changed so noticeable, I am not sure I would have fallen as far as I did.
Makes me even sadder to see young, healthy people harm themselves, even kill themselves, with this crap. Part of me is angry, because they have been blessed with a healthy, perfectly functioning body and this is what they chose to do with it…but I would absolutely lie, if I didn’t know exactly where they came from.
Thank you for sharing your story. Glad you are at good place right now. 😊
I can somewhat understand what you've experienced. I gained 50 lbs when I went to highschool which put me at 180. Got on antidepressants at Uni and gained another 50 lbs. Eventually I got off the meds a couple years later but didn't lose the weight. Fast-forward 10 yrs, developed arthritis and fibromyalgia, chronic pain and fatigue. Went on a bunch of meds, gained another 50 lbs. Now I sit at almost 300 lbs. I struggle all the time with my body image but I try not to do so in front of my children. I don't want them to hate their body. Thankfully, my husband loves me despite the weight gain. My parents on the other hand are "concerned" about my health. Which triggers me to hate myself even more. I am so happy that people are realizing that we are not cookie cutters to all look the same. I hope to get to a point in my life where I am happy with my physical self but it's been and continues to be a long and difficult journey.
I’ve never used them but I can understand why people end up there. I had severe problems with my legs when I was in school and had to run the ‘bleep test’. Obviously I didn’t do very well due to severe pain only to be called out in front of a room full of girls about being overweight and unhealthy and i was gonna be fat for my entire life whilst everyone else got to leave we had to stay and ‘taught’ how to exercise. I knew why I had done terribly but comments like that from someone who was supposed to have my best interests at heart could drive someone to take drastic action
That’s so unfair and really dangerous to label everyone who couldn’t do that as “fat and lazy” like no.
I sincerely hope they've banned the bleep test in schools. It's nothing but a way to make kids feel bad.
When I was in middle school my gym teacher made us measure our BMI right in front of the other kids. I was maybe a little chubby for a 12 year old my height (hell, I still am) and I remember it really upset me for a few weeks being told mine was too high. Luckily it didn’t have any long lasting affects on me, but it’s actually really upsetting to think back and realize a grown woman thought it was a good idea to publicly measure a child’s BMI in front of their classmates, at an age that kids are already starting to get self conscious and insecure.
I actually had a friend in *elementary* school talk about the tape worm diet and I just hope shes doing ok. And I hope her mom is doing ok because I do wonder if thats where she heard it from, either way, definitely a memory that makes me say "what the actual fuqq"
When i was really struggling with an ED as a teenager, i took those fat burners from the early 2000s (i cant remember the name, it had a Q or X or something in it😂. The super popular one in the US anyways) and after a few weeks, one of my friends kinda had an intervention on me and helped me get off them. Im so so grateful for her, i was such an emotional wreck and i already really struggle with sleep (if im in bed for 10 hours, ill get around 5 hours of sleep, if that) so i was hardly sleeping at all. I lost a bunch of weight but its cuz i wasnt eating. Those meds were crazy, and its crazy that theyre still on shelves.
yes- anything with ephedra aka mua wang or something. it was in hydroxycut and horrible. I remember it making me so nauseous so of course I wouldnt eat. With my heart beating out of my chest!
Yeah I remember Hydroxicut too!! And it did make your heart beat out of your chest. And yes they still sell that crap.
@@amysmithssportsandmakeup1397 Yes! Hydroxycut! That was it
@candyce6233 yup that's what it was I couldn't think of the name! I have crazy high BPM to begin with (im always over 100, when I have anxiety it's usually like 130-140) so I can't even imagine how bad my heart was taking that crap.
they've taken the ephedra out so it's not as bad@@candyce6233
Excuse your hair??! I love ittt! It has effortless kpop idol energy 👌On a more serious note, really appreciate how you handled the various topics!
I love that you emphasize there's no such thing as perfection
My weight has fluctuated a lot over my adult life. I'm currently the heaviest I've ever been. The temptation to reach for a "quick fix" can be really strong. In the past, I have come very close to taking some of these "diet supplements " but, luckily, I had people in my life who knew that these were dangerous and provided me with information. I'm now getting back into my pre-COVID routine of eating healthier foods and exercising regularly. It's hard, and I know that it will take some time, but I'm trusting that I will lose my excess weight and, more importantly, I will feel better and more comfortable in my body. ❤ Stay safe out there everyone - physically and mentally.
Thank you for covering this. I have been in and out of recovery from anorexia for nearly two decades. It started at age 10 with dieting, quickly turned into diet pills at age 12 and totally went downhill from there. I have permanent heart and liver damage from what I put my body through, but I'm much better now. Recently I've been told by quite a few people that I should try this diet try this tea try this and that to lose weight and its been weighing on me and I felt tempted. But when I watched this, all the misery and hospital visits came rushing back and I realized that its not worth it. There's no way I'm going back to that.
Wow, it's like you read my mind making this video right this moment. I've been seriously tempted and thinking about buying one of those diet/detox teas for the last few months, the only thing really stopping me is wondering if they would really work; it didn't even occur to me that they could be dangerous! Such an important topic, I'm so glad I watched this video.
If you want to bump up your system and really give yourself something safe that actually cleanses, cider vinegar, lemon and honey in warm water morning and night. It makes you sleep, and sets your system to work so nicely! Not the tastiest, but it’s amazing for arthritis, immune disorders and all sorts!
Jamila is one of my absolute favorite people. Her posts, podcast and advocacy is amazing with body positivity. She's so brutally honest. I think we need more people like her!
As someone who is a trainer/nutrition coach (after my own hard journey) so many struggle with body dysmorphia, eating disorders, etc. It's no joke. I have many friends who have competed in fitness competitions and one of the hardest things is seeing yourself at this "peak" of fitness and then slowly coming back to "being normal." It messes with a lot of people mentally. To stay in that state of fitness is not healthy long term and it's not realistic. But they become so used to seeing themselves super cut, leaned out, muscular, etc. that when they start to adjust their intake after the shows, they hate their bodies. I can see why someone (like the guy you referenced who was very fit) wanted more fat burners and to drop more weight. To most, no one would say he was out of shape or needed to lose weight. It is all such a huge struggle. Getting to be in a healthy relationship with food is a never ending process.
In my own struggle (anorexia in my early teens) and severe stomach issues throughout my life thus far, my nutritionist gave out mantra cards to pick from out of a big deck. The one I ended up with said: Healing your body takes one breath at a time. I still repeat that to myself regularly.
I tried the raspberry keytone & colon cleanse diet pills when I was in my early 20’s, when I was already only 8.5-9 stone. I’m now 32 am currently on the waiting list for the ED clinic as I’m still obsessed with how much I weigh. I think with these types of diet pills being so freely available, and obviously when you look at one ad for them, they start popping up all over your Facebook and insta feeds, they have a lot to answer for when it comes to EDs in our younger adults. It’s so, so sad.
I remember trying XLS Medical diet pills about 10 years ago, and on those you really could not eat anything even remotely fatty because if you did, well I’m going to say two words - anal leakage. The first time I took them I got AL and never took them again. It was horrifying!
I’m currently trying to loose 1 stone with a super healthy diet and exercise, and whilst it’s not even remotely working, probably due to menopause, I’m definitely not falling into the diet supplement trap again. Anal leakage is far worse than my wobbly thighs!
I have Crohn's disease. I would have people telling me I was body goals when I was at my sickest. Then call me fat when I was recovering from a flare. This led to me having a complex about my looks. So I refuse to let anyone comment about my size, rudely if I have to. No matter the size I am.
I used to work with NWM/MLM company that had products like this I always felt something that was off because our CEO is here in us my recruiters were based in UK and every zoom meeting whenever I would ask certain health questions, questions about if they were safe for people with autism(my kids and I) etc I'd always get muted and told to be careful what I ask and how 😢like wth? I basically ended up having a prolapse and was hospitalized for it, smh
The DNP section brought back memories of the ChubbyEmu video about the same supplement. Super interesting talking about the mechanism and I believe that was about a CZcamsr who took it and almost died? Would recommend if anyone wants more info after they've finished this one!
Didn't he also do one about tape worms ? The taco stand one? Or was that another typo of worm?
Pork tapeworms yes@@tabbieedwards4195
Yeah the taco stand video. That person didn't set out to get a terrible parasite though 😂
Those teas often have senna as the herb and it causes diarrhea. As expected we are starting to see the reports of bad side effects of Ozemoic - slows the intestinal track which can lead to permanent damage which will require long term medical care with no promise of getting back to normal. The quick fix is rarely going to lead to good health.
I really love that you and Robert drop your videos minutes apart! I just watch back to back and I LOVE that!
When I was younger I was made so miserable being bullied for being ‘fat’ I would definitely have taken a tape worm if I’d known how to get one - I was miserable! (looking back I wasn’t even fat, I just had boobs and a bum before it was ‘trendy’)
Have taken illegal drugs for weight loss.
As much as people talk about ‘body positivity’ there is still a core belief amongst people that link not being slim to being less of a person - just look at the comments section any time anyone who isn’t slim posts a video/photo online (even when the video/photo has nothing to do with weight).
Even now I take legal pills that stop your body absorbing fat. People who have been bullied for their weight feel bad enough to do anything which is why these companies flourish.
Your hair looks super cute curly!! 🥰
Mum always has a box of “Skinny Tea” around and I was way too scared to try it, but I did take L-Carnitine at the peak of my disordered eating and obsessive gym days. I’ve always fluctuated been curvy and overweight and I so focused on getting down to an Aus size 6-8, something I’m genetically not meant to be. It really hit home when I came back from a poorer region of Eastern Europe and what I saw there made me realised that we are basically glamorising starvation. It felt horrible. It’s still hard to train myself out of that way of thinking though, it starts so young!
Great discussion and good to highlight these things going through menopause and very overweight and i often get drawn to these adds i have tried a few in the past that didnt help i have long covid and fybromyalgia and had to medically retire from nursing so i am restricted in mobility and pain so struggling to exercise regularly it can be hard not being drawn to them and now there seems so many aiming at gut health now more things we should take etc i know gut health important but how can you really know whats safe or not glad you discussed these things thank you x
Andrea, I could have written that myself 😢 It’s so tough to lose weight right now, I’m constantly looking for the next thing that might work and not hurt. God. It’s so depressing. I wish to go doctors cared more about my mental health and less about my weight.
I have adhd and most of the stimulants used to treat it have a side effect of appetite loss. I have periods of time where I rapidly lost weight due to medication tricking my brain into feeling full. It’s not fun to have no appetite and when you don’t have the meds in your system, you can go into full hunger mode and basically eat everything because your body wants more, but your brain doesn’t. Don’t take pills to lose your appetite, it’s not worth it.
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali
I cannot believe you prefaced this with "excuse my hair" - your hair looks like a 50s male screen star perfectly coiffed fabulousness. I'm jealous it just does that naturally! YOUR HAIR IS DOING THE MOST IN THIS VIDEO.
yes, thank you. your health is far more important than what you look like. it took me a long time to realize that but it's very freeing. i myself abused laxatives at the height of my anorexia and i still have digestive issues to this day, nearly a decade later. it's really not worth it to harm yourself just to look a certain way. we should focus on loving our bodies for all of the amazing things that they do for us.
the more I hear these stories, the more I feel confident with my body, as far as I'm healthy inside, the outside doesn't bother me that much.
My senior year of HS (2001) i got totally sucked into Xenodrine...like i would go through 2 bottles a week. I remember when the FDA banned the sale of them here in the US and i legit cried because i was so addicted to them. Now looking back, im lucky i didnt die of a heart attack or from not eating
Supplements like that are so tempting, especially when you feel like you’ve tried so many things, and you just want that little boost. I’m glad I wasn’t on instagram when all those adds were everywhere, cause I’m pretty sure I’d end up buying it😅
I took fat burner supplements with Ephedra back in the early 2000s. They were probably the best and haven't worked the same since it was banned. That being said, I haven't used any since and would certainly never order them online or through the dark web. Scary!! I feel so bad for Bethany and all those who suffered.
Ephedra can cause high blood pressure and heart palpitations. These can lead to serious lifelong health problems Banned in US
Ephedrine was so damn addictive, actually knew a girl who went to rehab for them because she was taking like 30 a day.
"excuse my hair" WHY?!? It's GORGEOUS!!!
I tried the diet teas, thought it was working and I had to deal with the cramps. On day 3 I decided to drink 2 teabags and take my dog for a long walk ya know, good exercise to lose weight. A mile from my house in a park walking the dog I started cramping so bad. I had the absolute worse explosive uncontrollable diarrhea of my life. I was literally in a bush with my dog pooping for at least 20 mins. I had to call my boyfriend to come pick us up because it literally was uncontrollable and every few steps me and the dog were back in the bushes. I had diarrhea for the next 3 days straight. Could barely eat of drink because everything trigged the diarrhea and had to call out of work, could not leave the house. This was the worst idea I've evee had to lose weight. Thank god no serious injury after it. It was disgusting
Wonderful piece, James. Thank you.
This is my favorite series of yours!! It’s so interesting!!
When I was a teen, I wanted to be skinny, so I tried the Lemon diet, and I damaged my stomach badly, developed ulcer and some major complications ... My point is that no diet is OK. Just try to be healthy not skinny, have a good relationship with your body. I know it's easier said than done, but that is what we need to acknowledge
Great information today! A much needed subject
This was awesome James... thanks for talking about it ❤❤❤
I took the 1st phorm fat burner in 2013(goddess I think) black and pink bottle. I successfully lost 30 pounds in a month and was happy with it. Not only did I put the weight back on, but now in my 30s after 3 children, I cannot get back into shape no matter what I do. I have had a weight plateau for 4 months now and I just want to fit into my clothes again. I have had a healthy weight lifting routine with balanced diet for many months with no change. Those pills damaged me, I admit I did a few rounds of them when I needed to drop weight quickly. Don’t do it, just don’t do it while you’re young. Don’t take the fat burners. Just move your body in the way that you enjoy and eat real food. Dieting is not worth it if you want to look good as an adult too.
This video is super important today, thank you for making it!
Please do more of these!! They are so interesting!!!
When beauty turns ugly is my favorite thing on youtube !thank you for making these even tho they discuss not so nice topics its so important to break down taboos and get information out there! :)
Very informative video, thank you James.
I love this series of videos. Really interesting and informative xxx
Great video! This topic is soooo important! So many of my friends have had eating disorders and severe body image issues . Only later did I learn all they kept secret just trying to be model thin. Thank you!
LOVE the hair! I need more when beauty turns ugly, I’ve binged them all already!
These videos are my favourite and I am so glad to hear your sensible opinion on this topic! ❤
I have never been skinny "enough" and I've suffered my fair bit with it, but I am relieved I haven't done more than changing my diet in a healthy way and exercising to reduce my weight because I had good examples in the family and, specially, contact with body positivity and these horrible stories when I was growing up!
Hi James, Looking forward to videos from you, Robert and hopefully part 2 of the LA trip. Part 1 was great.
Gosh I do so enjoy your balanced and humane way of sharing information! Not an alarmest, not poking fun at misfortune of others, funny- just classy and well done. Thank you for what you do!
Hi James! When I was around 16 I became diet obsessed due to body dismorphia and an ED. I tried so many different types of teas and supplements over the span of a few years and doing so definitely took a toll on my body and my mind. It took me a long time through therapy and support of loved ones to understand that this behaviour was unhealthy and I needed to stop buying into (literally) the dream all of those companies are selling. I’m now 29 and so happy I learned my lesson because I can see right through those types of advertisements and was able to build a healthy relationship with my body and food. Its so easy for people to be swayed into believing something when it’s targeted at their securities so thank you for speaking on this and bringing awareness.
Ps I love this series and am excited to keep learning new things from the future videos you post. :)
This was such an in depth vid and even tho it was disturbing I appreciate it keep up the good work :)
Thanks so much for posting this video, James! I remember doing the Beyoncé lemonade diet as well as many other fad diets 😬
I feel as though the media in the 00s contributed heavily to people’s diet obsessions. Weekly glossy magazines mocked celebrities for being too thin or too heavy, so it seemed normal for impressionable teenagers and young women to critique their own body in the same way 😫
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It's so good to see someone like you make videos about these 'supplements' to warn people and challenge our messed up beauty standards 💜 its so shocking to hear how awful Bethany's death was, so devastating. OMFG the tapeworm!! I had no idea they could eat your organs or reproduce. Thank f*** I've finished my dinner, eww
Thank you for talking about this James!
I’ve never taken diet pills, but one thing that constantly bothers me is that as a female-presenting person, it is so hard to get advice about getting healthy and going to the gym that isn’t centered around weight loss. It is so hard to find content online or even in person help that doesn’t immediately talk about all the weight I could lose to "look better". In reality I’m at the gym for the cardiovascular and mental health benefits, if I end up losing a couple pounds fine, but that isn’t even on my list of goals.
you’re probably already aware, but LeanBeefPatty has some fun fitness/bodybuilding? content that doesn’t focus on or promote weight loss. she’s open about being an ED survivor on her channel as well.
my dude Hampton who runs the channel Hybrid Calisthenics has great videos on the mental side of fitness as well.
Jesus Christ... As a woman. It is hard for women.
excited for thissss✨💕✨💕
Thank you for covering this. I feel so much for the poor people that were affected by pills/teas etc. i myself used to be bulimic for a long time. I primarily started with binging and purging as we all tend to relate bulimia to but as time went on I also abused laxatives. I had IBS so was seeing a specialist who prescribed me medical grade laxatives (usually prescribed to much older people) that was like a powder you mixed with a drink and was meant to have maximum half a sachet a day. But my eating disorder spiralled and I ended up having about 2 sachets a day 😫 and then I got on to the detox tea hype and tried that AT THE SAME TIME *shudders* and lost so much weight but felt physically and mentally awful. The doctor that prescribed the sachets knew I had a history of bulimia but didn’t seem to care and I know they do that sort of thing a lot. It’s terrible.
Thankfully I’ve been bulimia free for over 5 years now and, although the urges are still there, I will not allow myself to fall back in to that trap.
I commend you for making this video and being so diplomatic about this topic. Eating disorders are real and we are made to feel so much shame around them but at the end of the day they are mental health disorders, just like with any other disorder, they need to be treated well and not judged.
Shout out to all my other past (and current) eating disorder individuals in the comments as I know first hand how hard it is to overcome and you’re all so brave and strong, even if you don’t think you are.
Thanks again James xx
Oh my goodness, I felt physically ill when you were talking about the tapeworm pill 🤢
I am so glad I barely see these ads anymore. I was a consumer who tried 2 different companies I did lose weight I was working out and barely eating so unhealthy! Most of this stuff has too much of everything. Thank you for bringing attention to this ❤
Your hair looks fab ❤ intentionally "messy" gives a casual vibe
Me: omg your hair looks so cuuuute
You: excuse my hair
MR. WELSH PLEASE
James your description of the tapeworm thing is killing!
'excuse my hair' he says as it looks the best it ever has, seriously consider letting it do its thing cuz it looks awesome with the texture it has going on :0
Love the vid as always!!!
"I would also stay anonymous if I did this" LMAO
I’ve had ED’s. I still struggle sometimes but my most dangerous eating habits were linked a medical issue, which I am finally being treated for so I’m doing a lot better. Those teas always made me laugh because people would be like “it helps burn calories and fat.” And I knew they were laxatives, like I have a native mom and grandma I knew about these teas long ago.
Love this series
Years ago I would buy diet/cleanse teas from the 99cent store. Horrible times lol, my stomach was always messed up from them, but I thought it was because they were working. I'm glad I never got into diet pills, it is so tragic that people died from them 💔
As someone who has struggled my entire life with self worth and body image, who has never felt attractive a day in my life, all these things make me so angry. Thanks for talking about it, but also….introducing parasites?! It shows you how nuts marketing can be.
As sb who recovered from Anorexia and then Bulimia, it's nice to see someone talking about these things. From my experience, when you're in the throws of an ED, it's so isolating and so mind-twisting, that the ED's "voice" dominates and takes over and can either make you do dangerous things despite knowing better, or just completely silence your sensible self. I always felt like I had a monster on my back controlling me. Without you talking about it and pointing out how dangerous and insane it is, the ED's "voice" goes completely unchallenged. I remember being 14 and hoping to somehow end up in a coma so I'd lose weight, or that I'd get horrible food poisoning so that I'd lose weight. EDs take you to dangerous, dark places.
You touched on something quite interesting in this video: *"Drinking too much water can kill you."* Yes, that is true! By consuming too much water you dilute the blood and change the electrolyte concentration in your nerves, causing the nervous system to go bananas.
With so many companies selling water bottles and water flavorings, water intake trackers, and influencers going on and on about how healthy it is to drink water, there has to be some lawsuits where someone got ill from drinking too much water. Maybe a future episode of When Beauty Turns Ugly?
The scariest part to me is that U.S collectively pours trillions of dollars into the health industry but the vast majority of Americans aren’t even healthy. The quality of our food sucks, and so we’re told to use supplements to help, but then people end up using supplements to try and replace a good diet and exercise.
I love your videos i am guilty of being an advertisers dream glad you are here getting the truth out! X
I remember watching this one episode of this show that just had ER doctors and staff retelling their craziest stories and this one story was about a woman who actually purchased a tape worm pill and gave it to her teenage daughter so she would lose some weight for pageant. The daughter ending getting sick but in the end she was ok. The mom claimed she didn’t actually know what was in the pill but even if she didn’t she did still buy black market diet pills and force her daughter to take them. I think she should have lost custody or faced criminal charges for that.
I remember hearing about the tapeworm thing when it took off and I've never, ever understood it. Why on Earth would anyone willing take on a parasite like that?
Omg I love your hair! It's so beautiful!
Good Lord James!!! I felt you deep on the tapeworm part! 😷😷
I had a cardiac arrest earlier this year (completely out of the blue) and the only reason I'm still alive is that I was resuscitated in the ambulance . After weeks in Intensive Care I'm living a much more considered life and am so grateful to have the opportunity to do so. So in my opinion there is NO WAY that I would take anything like these. Not only a waste of money but liable to damage your health in a multitude of ways but the potential to kill you. The sooner we start embracing ourselves "as we are" the better society we will have. Thanks for this video 💕
Gagging right there with you on the part about pooing out the tapeworm! 😬😬😬😬
I was in the middle of a totally different video, saw you posted, and instantly clicked 😆
I love this series. Also body dysmorphia is much more common in men than I think people talk about.