{"id":33048,"date":"2010-10-19T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=33048"},"modified":"2010-10-19T06:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:23:23","slug":"celebrity-diet-tweets-make-unhealthy-habits-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/celebrity-diet-tweets-make-unhealthy-habits-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Diet Tweets Make Unhealthy Habits Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Americans are unarguably obsessed with three (at the very least) things: Social networking,\u00a0body image\u00a0and celebrities. So when you create a cauldron comprised of this trio of addictions, you have a potion that is as lethal as a malevolent sorcerer’s concoction.<\/p>\n

And that is exactly what an article by a Global\u00a0Shift<\/a> writer is suggesting when non-famous Americans start following celebrities and their diet chronicles via Twitter. From Megan Fox’s apple cider vinegar<\/a> shots to Demi Moore’s<\/a> bikini photos, celebrities have taken to documenting their diet rituals and their effects in 140 characters or less and, unfortunately, many young and impressionable Americans are reading.<\/p>\n

Many follow reading these tweets with a trip to the store to pick up the ingredients for a fad-diet juice blend that likely will not cure their weight issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What makes one Twitter follower copy the\u00a0dieting practices\u00a0of a famous Tweeter is a question for psychologists.\u00a0And\u00a0we can’t blame Twitter,\u00a0since it’s\u00a0rather what we do with Twitter and other social networking devices that is\u00a0exacerbating an already\u00a0bleeding wound. Add this\u00a0to the\u00a0near God-like status\u00a0we have relegated to celebs as well as our ever expanding waistlines and it leaves few to wonder why sales of detox diets<\/a> and colon cleanses are through the roof, or why the diet industry is generating record-level revenue numbers, despite the hard-hit economy.<\/p>\n

Our infatuation with what celebrities do to make themselves Tweet (and\u00a0Tweet beautifully within a size 0) has become a national pastime. All we can really hope for is that as quickly as those 140 characters can be read, just as quickly can a five-second reality check be\u00a0practiced to restore us to balance, sanity and most of all, reality.<\/p>\n

There are celebrities, though, who are extolling the benefits of a healthy lifestyle 140 characters at a time. Alison Sweeney (@Ali_Sweeney), Rocco DiSpirito (@RoccoDispirito), a legion of Biggest Loser alumni (follow our list<\/a>), and Devin Alexander (@ChefDevin), just to name a few, are worth space in your Twitter time line if you’re looking for inspirational, real-life honesty about eating, living and breathing the healthiest life possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans are unarguably obsessed with three (at the very least) things: Social networking,\u00a0body image\u00a0and celebrities. So when you create a cauldron comprised of this trio of addictions, you have a potion that is as lethal as a malevolent sorcerer’s concoction. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[1147,8,26,3634,2989,971,5292,1073,1223],"class_list":["post-33048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-alison-sweeney","tag-biggest-loser","tag-celebrities","tag-demi-moore","tag-devin-alexander","tag-eating-disorders","tag-megan-fox","tag-rocco-dispirito","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33061,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048\/revisions\/33061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}